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For the past 13 years, NC State College of Design students have been tasked with exploring how technology and design can help tackle society’s biggest challenges. This year, students were asked to reconsider the role design plays in society. Rather than developing a traditional B2B interface, they explored how design,
Fraud targeting public sector programs has entered a new phase. Sophisticated fraudsters, armed with AI, are depleting public sector budgets and damaging trust in government – and that’s a reality governments must face. What was once largely opportunistic and fragmented has become organized, industrialized and increasingly cross-border. Fraudsters no longer
Medication non‑adherence remains one of health care’s most persistent and expensive challenges. Across chronic conditions, only about half of patients take medications as prescribed, even when effective treatments are available. The consequences are significant: disease progression, avoidable hospitalizations, increased mortality, and hundreds of billions of dollars in preventable health care
How to detect and respect Sensitivity Labels when working with SAS and Microsoft 365 content.
If you’ve been experimenting with tools inside ChatGPT or Claude, you’ve probably seen how quickly an AI agent can surface useful information. It can pull data, summarize what’s happening and point you in the right direction. That part works. Where things still break down is what happens next. You find
Pandemics. Wars. Energy crises. Unprecedented circumstances can make it hard to build accurate forecasts, especially when forecasts are based on historical data alone, explains Josh Ackerman, a Data Scientist Manager at DOW. “It’s hard to make strategic decisions when you can’t predict the future from the past,” says Ackerman. Leaders
A course in elementary statistics always introduces the "Z-score." A Z-score is the result of standardizing a normally distributed random variable. By subtracting the distribution's mean and dividing by its standard deviation, you transform a general normal random variable into a standardized variable that has zero mean and unit standard
At SAS Innovate 2026, best-selling author and podcaster Mel Robbins joined CMO Jenn Chase on the main stage for a candid, energizing conversation about change – why it’s so hard, why it feels relentless right now and how we can show up more effectively as leaders, teammates and humans. From
After another SAS Innovate, let’s revisit some images from the past and talk about the evolution that brought us to where we are today. A community built from the start (1976) In 1976, the same year SAS was incorporated, a few hundred users gathered for the first SAS user conference.
In fraud prevention, the most consequential moment is when a decision is made. Every flagged transaction, suspicious login or anomalous pattern triggers a choice that must balance speed, accuracy, customer trust and regulatory responsibility. Act too aggressively and legitimate customers feel friction. Act too cautiously and fraud slips through. In
Let’s be clear – recapping the Dude Perfect session at SAS Innovate 2026 is going to sound a little uncanny. Some moments simply don’t translate easily into bullet points and corporate narrative, and this was absolutely one of them. When Dude Perfect took the main stage, energy levels spiked instantly,
If Day 1 asked what organizations should scale with AI, Day 2 showed what that looks like when trusted technology, industry expertise and human judgment come together in the moments that matter. Day 2 of SAS Innovate 2026 moved quickly from vision to application. Across banking, health care and life
There’s a question floating around in many conversations, leadership meetings, hiring decisions, at home and in the way companies are quietly restructuring. Most people aren’t saying it directly, but it’s there. SAS CTO Bryan Harris did say it directly at SAS Innovate 2026, which set the stage for this genuinely
Every lottery ticket printed is a forecast – and when that forecast is wrong, the consequences are immediate. “If the ticket’s there, you buy it. If the display is empty, you walk away,” said Kyle Gray, Insights and Analytics Manager at the North Carolina Education Lottery. “That moment is forecasting.”
There is a moment in every organization when you realize culture is not just "how we do things around here." It’s why we do them. Culture manifests in how we talk to each other, how we make decisions when things aren’t obvious and the tradeoffs we’re willing to live with.