ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining

KDD-2000

Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
August 20-23, 2000
Boston, MA, USA

Decision Support in the Booming E-World

Dr. James H. Goodnight

President and CEO, SAS

Presentation (PDF, 1.59 MB)

Abstract

According to Forrester Research, global e-commerce will be worth nearly $7 trillion by the year 2004. That constitutes more than a 14,000% increase from the 1999 total of approximately $1 billion. With this explosion, the need for business intelligence solutions will increase proportionally.

In his remarks, Goodnight will outline the strategy for helping customers succeed at e-business. He will focus on making effective use of the data generated by Internet activities, while moving more of the customers' business-to-business services to the Web.

Biography

Dr. James H. Goodnight is president, CEO and co-founder of SAS Institute, the largest privately held software company in the world and the leader in data warehousing and decision support. Goodnight has authored many of the procedures that comprise SAS® software, and he remains closely involved in the company's day-to-day development activities.

A native of Wilmington, N.C., Goodnight holds bachelor's and master's degrees as well as a doctorate in statistics from North Carolina State University. He served on the faculty of NCSU from 1972 to 1976, and continues to serve as an adjunct professor. Goodnight is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and has authored numerous papers on statistical computing.