Info about Matlab
Matlab is available free for all members of BCS, and all CVS members who have appointments in AS&E.
License issues
The University's Matlab site license goes through an annual renewal process, and this can result in your copy of Matlab showing warnings about the license expiring. To remove the warning, click on "Help-> Licensing -> Update Current License". Matlab should then retrieve the new license from Mathworks and you'll be good for another year.
If this does not fix the problem, then you will need to deactivate and reactivate your copy of Matlab. You need an account with Mathworks that uses a UR e-mail address to do this.
1) On a Windows computer, first quit Matlab. Then on the desktop click on 'Start->All Programs' and select the Matlab *folder*. Inside, you should see three files..Activate Matlab, Deactivate Matlab, and Matlab itself. On a Mac, right-click (or Control-click, or two-finger click on MacBook Pro trackpad) on the Matlab application itself and select "Show Package Contents" from the resulting window. Inside this, you'll find separate activation and deactivation programs for Matlab.
2) Run the deactivate program to deactivate your copy of Matlab.
3) Run the activate program, login with your Mathworks account, and reactivate Matlab. If you're running an older version of Matlab (earlier than the 2014 versions if I remember correctly), you will need the University's Matlab activation code to do this. Please ask me (Chris) for this.