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The Distinguished Service to the Profession of Applied Mathematics prize, established by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1985, is in the form of a certificate awarded every year at the SIAM Annual Meeting. The annual prize is awarded to an applied mathematician who has made distinguished contributions to the furtherance of applied mathematics on the national level. This year’s SIAM Annual Meeting was held in New Orleans, July 11–15, 2005.

Dr. Cleve Moler was rewarded this year’s prize in recognition of his lifelong support of computational and applied mathematics through his development of high-quality mathematical algorithms and software (LINPACK, EISPACK, and MATLAB). He has successfully distributed his developments into mainstream use within the fields of education, science and engineering as well as through his textbooks. He has provided 18 years of community service with NA Digest and has served extensively on national committees and to SIAM.

Cleve was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 "for conceiving and developing widely used mathematical software."  He has served on the SIAM Council, as SIAM VP at Large, on the SIAM Board of Trustees, as well as numerous SIAM committees.

Dr. Moler received his BS from California Institute of Technology and his MS and PhD from Stanford University, all in Mathematics.  He was a professor of mathematics and computer science for almost 20 years at the University of Michigan, Stanford University and the University of New Mexico.  He then spent five years with two computer hardware manufacturers, the Intel

Hypercube organization and Ardent Computer.  In 1984, he founded The MathWorks, Inc. with Jack Little to develop and market the company's flagship MATLAB product.  He joined The MathWorks full-time in 1989 and has been Chairman and Chief Scientist since 1990.  Dr. Moler's professional interests center on numerical analysis and mathematical software.  In addition to being the author of the first version of MATLAB, he is one of the authors of the LINPACK and EISPACK subroutine libraries.  He is also coauthor of three textbooks on numerical methods.