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Richard Potter
Harper Corditt Software
LOCATION: North Carolina
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ABOUT ME:

I started in the humanities, receiving a PhD in philosophy from Brown University in 1980, specializing in epistemology. I taught as a visiting professor at the college level for a few years and during that time, tried to find a tenure-track position. Since a tenure-track position never materialized, I left the philosophy profession and retooled in computer science, earning my MS in computer science from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1986.

After working as a software developer for a few years, I was hired by SAS Institute in 1993. I started my career at SAS working directly for one of the co-owners of the company on a product called JMP. At that time, JMP ran only on the Macintosh; sales were very poor and the future of the product was uncertain. My assignment was to guide the JMP development team in their effort to port JMP to Windows. After that project was completed, the Windows version of JMP became a huge success. Eventually, I became the first director of JMP R&D. Later, I moved over to the Econometrics and Time Series (ETS) group to help port key SAS ETS procedures to SAS's next-generation, massively parallel, distributed computing platform, which later became known as Viya. I worked at SAS Institute for 25 years and retired at the end of 2018.

Over the years, as my schedule would permit, I have taught undergraduate mathematics courses as an adjunct professor at various colleges and universities in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area. I was very honored to have the opportunity to teach advanced calculus and ordinary differential equations in the mathematics department at UNC-CH, particularly since I don't have an official Master's degree (let alone PhD) in mathematics.

I started using Mathematica when v3.0 was released, and have been an enthusiast ever since.

I formed Harper Corditt Software in 2019 to develop add-ons for Mathematica. My latest product, the DOE Toolkit, extends the Wolfram language to include functions that generate experimental designs. The DOE Toolkit includes a manipulator tool for analyzing the results of an experiment. I have also created an iPad app by the same name for generating basic experimental designs.