I'm Caslee Sims, writer and editor for SAS Blogs. I gravitate toward spaces of creativity, collaboration and community. Whether it be in front of the camera, producing stories, writing them, sharing or retweeting them, I enjoy the art of storytelling. I share interests in sports, tech, music, pop culture among others.
The first time I met Jalen Brown, he was a North Carolina Central University golfer attending the SAS HBCU Career Day in 2024. We talked about golf, technology and how the discipline required to improve at one could translate to the other. Two years later, Jalen and I are talking about
Much of the conversation around agentic AI focuses on autonomy. How much work can an agent complete on its own? How many decisions can it make? How far can organizations remove people from the process? Those questions make sense, but they can also obscure where businesses are finding value today.
Fifty years later, Barry Merrill still remembers where it all started. In an interview, Merrill reflected on discovering SAS through a small notice in Datamation magazine. At the time, the software was new, largely unknown and available for $100. "North Carolina State University's statistics department announces the availability of the
