Congratulations to all of these winners in the MWSUG Best Contibuted Papers! I hope you have all submitted your papers to the 2013 SAS Global Forum. The deadline for submissions ends soon!

Here's a list that I know you have all been waiting for:

BI Applications/Architecture

Top Ten SAS® Performance Tuning Techniques
Kirk Paul Lafler

 Software Intelligence Corporation, Spring Valley, CA

Capella University, Minneapolis, MN

Direct Marketing Profit Model
Bruce Lund

Marketing Associates, Detroit, MI

A CareerView Mirror: Another Perspective on Your Work and Career Planning
Bill Donovan

OckhamSource™, Cary, NC

Get the Best Out Of SAS® ODS Graphics and the SG (Statistical Graphics) Procedures: Communication-Effective Charts, Things That SAS/GRAPH® Cannot Do As Well, and Macro Tools To Save Time and
LeRoy Bessler PhD

Bessler Consulting and Research

Hands-On Workshops
Doing More with the Display Manager: From Editor to ViewTable – Options and Tools You Should Know
Arthur L. Carpenter

California Occidental Consultants, Anchorage, AK

Get SAS®sy with PROC SQL
Amie Bissonett

Pharmanet/i3, Minneapolis, MN

Using SAS® Software to Aid in the ICD-10 Code Set Implementation
Alexander Pakalniskis, M.S.; Nilesh Bharadwaj, B.S., Caren Jones, MPH; Alein T. Chun, Ph.D

JMP® Pro Bootstrap Forest
George J. Hurley

The Hershey Company, Hershey, PA

Use of SAS® to determine broiler chick feed color preference in correlation with performance under different housing light colors.
Nichole Graham

Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS

Why the Bell Tolls 108 times? Stepping Through Time with SAS
Peter Eberhardt

Fernwood Consulting Group Inc, Toronto, ON, Canada

Testing the Bayesian Suite of SAS® Procedures using Ecological Data and Comparing Simulations with WinBUGS
Matthew Russell

Dept. of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN