Gail Stephens is Vice President of Business Intelligence Client Applications for SAS. This includes client applications such as Web Report Studio, Information Map Studio, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office, SAS AppDev Studio, SAS Data Integration Studio, SAS Information Delivery Portal, and OLAP Clients. Gail has a background developing graphical user interface (GUI) based products at SAS and has specifically moved into the business intelligence space. She has also managed other GUI products, including the first one developed at SAS. Stephens was also the manager and original developer of both SAS/ASSIST and SAS/EIS. Gail also serves on the Strategic Advisory board for the computer science department at North Carolina State University. Less   View all posts

Ian Ayres is a lawyer and an economist. He is the William K. Townsend Professor at Yale Law School and a Professor at Yale's School of Management. Professor Ayres is a columnist for Forbes magazine and writes for the New York Times' Freakonomics Blog. He has been a commentator on public radio’s Marketplace. His research has been featured on PrimeTime Live, Oprah and Good Morning America and in Time and Vogue magazines. In 2006, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ian has been ranked as one of the most prolific and most-cited law professors of his generation. He has previously taught at Illinois, Northwestern, Stanford and Virginia law schools and has been a research fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He currently is the editor of the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization. Professor Ayres has published 9 books and over 100 articles on a wide range of topics including (in 2007) Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-By-Numbers is the New Way to be Smart. Less   View all posts