J. C. SPALL is on the Principal Staff at JHU/APL and is Chair of the Applied and Computational Math Program in the School of Engineering. Dr. Spall has published extensively in control and statistics and holds 2 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
Given its use with book, I assumed the code was not intended to be production code nor necessarily the most efficient, but rather was designed to meet the pedagogical aims of the book (I also own a copy of the book). The availability of these algorithms provides a valuable learning tool and supplement to the book. Given this objective, the code demonstrates the algorithms covered in the book and appear perfectly suitable for moderate-size problems.
