Year
Maple
Undergraduate Student
Me
1980
MAPLE project conceived
• Symbolic Computation Group
• BGSU (Ohio)
• goal: “efficient” CAS
1981
• Eastman Kodak Scholar
1982
Maple 1.0, 2.0, 2.1, 2.15, 2.2
• written in B for Unix
• used locally at Waterloo
1983
Maple 3.0, 3.1
• 1st major MAPLE paper
• ˜50 external installations
• muMATH
1984
Maple 3.2
• B.S. (with Honors) in Math
• distribution by WATCOM
• B.S. in Computer Science
Products, Inc.
Graduate Student
• port to IBM VM/CMS and
• Carnegie Mellon
DEC VMS
• Intro Numerical Analysis
• convert Reference Manual to
• MACSYMA
User’s Guide