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John Sall
John P. Sall (born 1948) is an American billionaire businessman and computer software developer, who co-founded SAS Institute, an analytics software company, and created the JMP statistical software.
Early life and education
John Sall was born in Rockford, Illinois in 1948.[1] As a child, he developed an interest in science.[2]
He received a bachelor's degree in history from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin. Sall felt he graduated into a weak job market, so he went to graduate school at Northern Illinois University, where he earned a master's degree in economics. It was at graduate school that Sall became interested in statistics and computer science.[3] He went on to study graduate-level statistics at North Carolina State University, where he received an honorary doctorate in 2003.[4][5][6] He received an honorary doctorate from NIU in 2014.[7]
Career
Main articles: SAS Institute and SAS (software)
Sall collaborated with James Goodnight at North Carolina State University
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“SAS co-founder and Executive Vice President, John Sall used to say, ‘SAS was born on a farm, raised on drugs and grew up in the industry,’” recalled Dr. Herb Kirk, explaining the legacy of SAS use in the agriculture and pharmaceutical sectors before expanding into all industries.
Before joining SAS in 1979, Kirk spent ten years as a consulting statistician to North Carolina State University Department of Horticulture. Kirk retired from SAS in 2011 after spending 31 years with the company. The company’s agricultural roots are clearly evident from Kirk’s memories of the early SAS years.
From a farm to a National Institutes of Health grant
Looking back, Kirk recounted how statistics worked before his time: “They had a big room full of ladies and gentlemen who would do the calculations by hand.” Later, agricultural researchers would gather “data collected in field, bring it in and use calculators to find answers.” Kirk, who was raised on a tobacco farm and received an undergraduate degree in forestry recalled thinking: “Why can’t we get a grant to develop some statistica
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John Sall
John P. Sall (born 1948) is an American billionaire and software programmer who co-founded SAS Institute and created JMP statistical software.
Early life and education
[change | change source]John Sall was born in Rockford, Illinois in 1948,[1] and was interested in science as a child.[2]
He got a bachelor's degree in history from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin and then went to Northern Illinois University (NIU), where he got a master's degree in economics. While he was studying at NIU, Sall became interested in statistics and computer science.[3] He went to study statistics at North Carolina State University, where he was given an honorary doctorate in 2003.[4][5][6] He received an honorary doctorate from NIU in 2014.[7]
Career
[change | change source]Main articles: SAS Institute and SAS (software)
John Sall worked with programmer James Goodnight at North Carolina State University.[8][9][1] In 1976, they founded the company SAS Institute with Anthony