1. John P Sall was born on 1948 and is an American billionaire businessman and computer software developer, who co-founded SAS Institute, an analytics software company, and created the JMP statistical software.
15 Facts About John Sall
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John Sall received a bachelor's degree in history from Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin.
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John Sall went on to study graduate-level statistics at North Carolina State University, where he received an honorary doctorate in 2003.
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John Sall received an honorary doctorate from NIU in 2014.
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John Sall collaborated with James Goodnight at North Carolina State University.
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John Sall is best known for developing the SAS suite of analytics and data management software.
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John Sall designed, developed, and documented many of the earliest procedures of the SAS language.
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John Sall continued to do coding and product development for JMP software for more than 20 years, supporting Windows 3.1, writing the product in different implementation languages, re-writing the product's "nervous system" and improving the JMP scripting language.
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John Sall co-authored the book JMP Start Statistics with Ann Lehman and Lee Creighton.
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John Sall is married to Ginger Sall, with whom he has four children.
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John Sall was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1998 and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015, he is a member of the North Carolina State University board of trustees.
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John Sall received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from North Carolina State University's College of Sciences in 2017.
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John Sall owns about one-third of SAS Institute, while Goodnight owns the remainder.
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In 2018, John Sall was still working, doing programming, and leading a team of developers.
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John Sall was on the board of The Nature Conservancy from 2002 to 2011, and is a member of the board for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.