From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sun Aug 11 22:18:37 2002 Subject: Re: Newbie question: Octave vs MatLab, books, toolboxes, status, etc. From: A S Hodel To: Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 22:14:57 -0500 Neural nets: I don't think there's a formal toolbox for Octave yet. Some (preliminary) multi-layer perceptron .oct and .m files are available at ftp://ftp.eng.auburn.edu/pub/hodel/6240/elec6240_mfiles, along with my lecture notes in the parent directory. -- > From: "Michael Boerner" > Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 07:31:52 -0700 > To: > Subject: Newbie question: Octave vs MatLab, books, toolboxes, status, etc. > Resent-From: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu > Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 07:35:56 -0500 > > Hi: > > Sorry for not lurking longer but I need a go/no-go by Aug. 14, 2002. > > I have been working on a project that would benefit from MatLab or Octave. > I know nothing about either. I have joined some of the lists in order to > learn more. One thing I have learned is that the budget will on support > MatLab! > > I am looking to do some DSP, some alg. design for DSP, some neural net work, > etc. Will Octave support this? Are there similar toolboxes for Octave as > there are MatLab in these areas? How far is Octave behind/ahead of MatLab? > > Finally, anyone have a reference to a good book? Specifically on DSP and > alg. development. Will all MatLab books be compatible with Octave? My > impression is no. > > Thanks in advance. > > Michael > ------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. Octave's home on the web: http://www.octave.org How to fund new projects: http://www.octave.org/funding.html Subscription information: http://www.octave.org/archive.html -------------------------------------------------------------