Ray Stata
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Analog Devices
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A native of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
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, Stata earned BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT. In 1965 he founded Analog Devices with MIT classmate Matthew Lorber in Cambridge
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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. Stata was President of the company from 1971 to 1991 and served as CEO from 1973 to 1996. In 1973, he was named as Chairman of the Board, a role he continues to hold.
Before founding Analog Devices
Analog Devices
Analog Devices, Inc. , known as ADI, is an American multinational semiconductor company specializing in data conversion and signal conditioning technology, headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts...
, Stata founded Solid State Instruments, a company which was later acquired by Kollmorgen Corporation's Inland Controls Division.
Besides ADI, Stata is founder of Stata Venture Partners, a venture capital firm in the Boston area that contributes to many Boston area startups like Nexabit Networks, acquired by Lucent for $960M.
As co-founder and the first President of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, Stata advocated that engineering education and university research funding were a shared responsibility of government and industry. He remains a member of the Board of Directors of the MHTC. One educational initiative from the MHTC is the Massachusetts STEM Collaborative, which Stata is co-chairs, that is dedicated to nurturing interest in math and science among students in K through 12 grade levels. Another is the Retired Engineers In Education program which brings scientists and engineers into middle school classrooms to teach math and science.
At the federal level, Stata served on the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness from 1987 to 2005. Stata's service on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
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Board of Overseers stemmed from his professional commitment to total quality management. He was also a founder of the Center for Quality of Management in 1989.
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stata is now Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 1984 he was elected to MIT's Corporation and today is a member of its Executive Committee. In 1987-1988 he served as President of the MIT Alumni Association.
In 1997, Stata made a significant donation to the construction of a new academic complex on the MIT campus called the Ray and Maria Stata Center
Stata Center
The Ray and Maria Stata Center or Building 32 is a academic complex designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . The building opened for initial occupancy on March 16, 2004...
. The building was designed by Frank Gehry
Frank Gehry
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Stata is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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and the National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Engineering
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, and was the recipient of the 2003 IEEE Founder's Medal.
Ray Stata has a son, Raymie Stata
Raymie Stata
Raymie Stata is the Chief Technology Officer at Yahoo!. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he founded Stata Laboratories, maker of the Bloomba search-based e-mail client and the SAProxy anti-spam filter,which he sold to Yahoo! in October 2004....
, also an entrepreneur, who graduated from MIT. Raymie, named Yahoo!'s CTO in 2010, founded Stata Labs (acquired by Yahoo! in 2004). Ray also has a daughter, Nicole.
Stata was chosen to be the MIT 2010 Commencement speaker.