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Diana Levey
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Yes, it’s rocket science

Since Dr. Dimitri Mavris took the stage yesterday at the Innovators’ Summit, I’ve heard nothing but wonderful things about his talk. In fact, even John Sall called Dr. Mavris his hero. And why not? Dr. Mavris runs Georgia Tech’s Aerospace Systems Design Lab, where industry and academia come together like

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Overheard at the Innovators’ Summit

“Using JMP, our company saved $6 million in the first six months of this year. Even for a company that brings in $100 million a month, that’s a lot of money.” – Oil industry representative at Sunday night Welcome Dinner “The ultimate purpose of collecting data is to provide a

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"There’s nothing more overrated than a good idea."

How do you make sure every engineer, statistician and innovator in an audience is awake and ready to participate the first morning of a two-day learning event? You challenge their concept of innovation and you say that there’s nothing more overrated than a good idea. That’s what MIT visionary and

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Rhinos, Tigers and now Bears!

“Wild” may not be the way most JMP User Conference attendees described their time on the SAS Campus last week. I’m guessing “educational,” “eye-opening” and even “fun” would be better descriptors for most of the folks who attended the conference and/or the classes around it. But my week had a