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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.
John Sall was born in Rockford, Illinois in 1948. As a child, he developed an interest in science.
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. He went on to study graduate-level statistics at North Carolina State University, where he received an honorary doctorate in 2003. He received an honorary doctorate from NIU in 2014.
Sall collaborated with James Goodnight at North Carolina State University. In 1976, the two co-founded SAS Institute, an analytics software company, with fellow NCSU alumni Anthony James Barr and Jane Helwig.
The company is best known for developing the SAS suite of analytics and data management software. Sall designed, developed, and documented many of the earliest procedures of the SAS language. Some of his contributions included procedures for working with time series, econometrics, categorical data and matrix algebraic manipulations. SAS software was originally developed to analyze agricultural data, but its modern applications include machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning, and computer vision.
SAS Institute grew rapidly, becoming one of the largest privately held software providers in the world and earning $3.2 billion in annual revenue as of 2022. In 2021, it was announced that the company was preparing for an initial public offering (IPO). During this time, the company has invested heavily into the research and development of artificial intelligence tools designed for industries like finance, healthcare, and insurance.
Sall started developing JMP, which originally stood for "John's Macintosh Project", in the 1980s, when the graphical user interface was introduced on the Macintosh. JMP is distributed by JMP Statistical Discovery, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of SAS. Sall and a small team of developers spent a year and a half working on JMP before version one was released in October 1989. 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. Today Sall still acts as JMP's chief architect.
He also co-authored the book JMP Start Statistics with Ann Lehman and Lee Creighton.
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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.
John Sall was born in Rockford, Illinois in 1948. As a child, he developed an interest in science.
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. He went on to study graduate-level statistics at North Carolina State University, where he received an honorary doctorate in 2003. He received an honorary doctorate from NIU in 2014.
Sall collaborated with James Goodnight at North Carolina State University. In 1976, the two co-founded SAS Institute, an analytics software company, with fellow NCSU alumni Anthony James Barr and Jane Helwig.
The company is best known for developing the SAS suite of analytics and data management software. Sall designed, developed, and documented many of the earliest procedures of the SAS language. Some of his contributions included procedures for working with time series, econometrics, categorical data and matrix algebraic manipulations. SAS software was originally developed to analyze agricultural data, but its modern applications include machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning, and computer vision.
SAS Institute grew rapidly, becoming one of the largest privately held software providers in the world and earning $3.2 billion in annual revenue as of 2022. In 2021, it was announced that the company was preparing for an initial public offering (IPO). During this time, the company has invested heavily into the research and development of artificial intelligence tools designed for industries like finance, healthcare, and insurance.
Sall started developing JMP, which originally stood for "John's Macintosh Project", in the 1980s, when the graphical user interface was introduced on the Macintosh. JMP is distributed by JMP Statistical Discovery, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of SAS. Sall and a small team of developers spent a year and a half working on JMP before version one was released in October 1989. 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. Today Sall still acts as JMP's chief architect.
He also co-authored the book JMP Start Statistics with Ann Lehman and Lee Creighton.