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Communications Specialist

Chad is a member of the Internal Communications team at SAS. He supports the Research and Development division and other technology groups at SAS.

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Things that go fast: High-performance analytics

Oliver Schabenberger likes things that go fast. Perched on a shelf in his office at SAS world headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, are five scale models of Formula One race cars, which symbolize Schabenberger’s fascination with speed and technology. The models are replicas of the life-size, aerodynamic machines that can travel

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Live from A2011: Blockbuster or flop?

Jack Valenti, longtime president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America, once said “No one, absolutely no one, can tell you what a movie is going to do in the marketplace… Not until that film opens in a darkened theater, and sparks fly up between the screen and

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Why technology in education is important

Roughly a year ago, Bruce Friend, Director of SAS Curriculum Pathways, participated on a technology advisory team at a school in Raleigh, North Carolina: a place he described as a "technology-rich environment" that was not being maximized by teachers. During a lunchtime forum, he remembered one student pulling out his

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How do you respond to a data tsunami?

Using analytics to properly interpret the ocean of information that exists within organizations is the key to avoid drowning in the data tsunami. “That’s the message SAS Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Keith Collins delivered in a recent address to a group of computer science students at North

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Statistical honorees from SAS

Four SAS employees received honors at the Joint Statistical Meetings held last week in Washington, D.C. The largest annual gathering of statisticians held in North America, JSM 2009 was held Aug. 1- 6 and brought together more than 6,400 statisticians for presentations, panel discussions, poster presentations, continuing education courses and