Rob Purser
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Rob Purser is senior development manager for hardware interfacing and online developer workflows for MATLAB along with the Community section of the MathWorks web site. He is a senior member of the IEEE, has six patents, and has held positions at Owl Control Systems, PictureTel (now Polycom), and Microsoft. Rob holds a B.S.C.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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