Is the old adage, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas," really true? Jennifer Priestley wanted to find out and figured a gathering of nearly 1,000 statisticians at an analytics conference would want to know, as well. So the Kennesaw State University statistics professor posed that question to attendees during her opening
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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
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
Contributed by Chad Austin, SAS Internal Communications The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) is historically the world’s largest society for professionals in the field of operations research (OR) and management science. Recently, Manoj Chari, Senior R&D Director responsible for operations research at SAS, served on a panel
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
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
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