Since May 22nd, China 13 universities, including these two universities, were put on the entity control list by the United States, and the United States finally laid hands on it. It is the same as the formula that Android gave Huawei a break. Forcibly interrupt the software service and get stuck.
Matlab is a commercial mathematics and scientific calculation produced by mathworks Company in the United States. Simulation software is an advanced algorithm development and reception, visual data analysis and numerical calculation technology.
Computer language and interactive environment, its toolbox function covers dozens of disciplines such as mathematical calculation, modeling, simulation, electronic communication, machinery and chemical engineering. There are millions of engineers and mathematicians all over the world. Everyone is using it, and it is also an indispensable teaching software for domestic universities of science and engineering. Tsinghua, Peking University and Xi Jiaotong University are all using matlab. In some professional courses in universities, the first lesson is to teach how to install matlab, so it is called an essential artifact for engineering students.
If matlab continues to be implemented in universities in China, the ban means that papers published by these universities cannot display data icons obtained by matlab, otherwise they will be sued as unauthorized. The American government banned the sale of matlab, which indirectly interfered with the normal, scientific research and teaching activities of domestic universities.
In this way, the entity list will have a greater impact on domestic scientific research institutions. Faced with this problem, is there no way for colleges and universities to deal with it?
Yes, of course. First of all, the prohibition of authorization means that mathworks can't provide technical support and business cooperation for relevant institutions in the future, and the original authorization sold before can still be used, but it can't be used for publishing papers and related research.
Secondly, colleges and universities can also use open source software instead of matlab. Open source software that can replace matlab includes Scilab, Spyder, python, julia and so on. For the second method, universities that prohibit the use of matlab need large-scale transcoding, and the code of courseware practice is changed to Python and octave. This is a stupid method, which may require a lot of practice, resulting in no scientific research output in the next few years, but it is better than no available software.