The missing piece: Connecting school work to STEM careers

Caroline McCullen
Caroline McCullen|December 10, 2012

Just for a moment, think back to the days when you were in middle school.  Chances are, at some point you asked your teacher, “WHY do we have to study this stuff?”  or “When will I ever USE this stuff?” Students are still asking those questions today, but there is [...]

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SAS loves math: Wendy McHenry

Annette Marett
Annette Marett|November 9, 2012

From figuring out the optimal price a company should charge for soup to forecasting an organization’s financial outcomes, each day brings a new business challenge for Wendy McHenry, systems engineer at SAS. Her “How can we help?” attitude is only part of the equation for successful customer relationships. Find out how math [...]

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SAS loves math: Udo Sglavo

Annette Marett
Annette Marett|November 2, 2012

“Maybe math is not love-at-first-sight for you, but it pays to flirt with it a little,” says Udo Sglavo.  As a principal analytical consultant in the operations research R&D group at SAS, he’s not your typical mathematician. Udo arrived at his career with a gentle tug from family members and [...]

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SAS loves math: Dan Zaratsian

Dylan Sweetwood
Dylan Sweetwood|August 10, 2012

Dan Zaratsian, senior associate technical consultant in the analytics group, is an expert web-crawler—and wakeboarder—who works one-on-one with customers using math to mine sentiment from textual data. An electrical engineer with a mathematical mind, Dan thinks the text analytics he does is awesome—and so do we. Read on for a [...]

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SAS loves math: Imre Polik

Dylan Sweetwood
Dylan Sweetwood|August 3, 2012

Imre Polik, senior operations research specialist in the operations research group, truly qualifies as a math lover. Having studied math his entire life—and having taught it for two years—Imre offers some valuable words of wisdom and experience. He even has a couple of stories and jokes up his sleeves! Read [...]

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SAS loves math: Tammy Jackson

Dylan Sweetwood
Dylan Sweetwood|July 27, 2012

Tammy Jackson, a senior research statistician developer in the economics technology group, says her job is like taking a math test all day—but she wouldn’t have it any other way. With a background in matrices, linear algebra and math education, Tammy is proud of her work and has a keen eye for [...]

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SAS loves math: The series

Dylan Sweetwood
Dylan Sweetwood|July 18, 2012

I’m very pleased to introduce a new blog series called “SAS Loves Math!” This series will feature interviews with SAS employees who simply love math. Now, I know what you’re probably thinking: of course SAS loves math! We are, after all, an analytical software company. But what often goes unmentioned [...]

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Willie goes to the White House

Willie the Seeing Eye Dog
Willie the Seeing Eye Dog|June 4, 2012

Ed says the great jobs of tomorrow will be in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. There’s a strong demand for graduates in those fields. That’s why it is critically important for all of our young people to get a solid education in math and science. Kareem Dale, [...]

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There's nothing "elective" about computer science education

Caroline McCullen
Caroline McCullen|December 5, 2011

December 4 marked the beginning of Computer Science Education Week, and I’d like to take a moment to consider how the business community might support K-12 schools as they respond to this rapidly changing field. Many years ago when computer science courses first appeared in schools, they were considered “extra” [...]

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SAS CEO Jim Goodnight on education reform

Alison Bolen
Alison Bolen|November 16, 2011

SAS CEO Jim Goodnight is passionate about education reform. The fruits of that passion are evident in SAS’ philanthropic efforts and in the many public speeches Dr. Goodnight gives on the topic. Earlier this month, we covered his visit to the Kelley School of Business. Last week, he was the [...]

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