Ben Tomlinson is a Principal Software Developer in SAS Business Intelligence R&D working on both user interfaces and mid-tier services. Ben received a Master’s in Computer Science from North Carolina State University and has been a SAS employee for 14 years. Past projects have included SAS Management Console, SAS Drug Development and SAS Visual Statistics. Currently Ben is a lead developer on a project focused on integrating natural language understanding and natural language generation to provide easier access to data and analytics.