Raymie Stata is the Chief Technology Officer at Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he founded Stata Laboratories, maker of the Bloomba

Bloomba

Bloomba is an email client publicly announced February 2003 at IDG's DEMO show. It was released in October 2003. Bloomba's developer, Stata Laboratories, Inc...

 search-based e-mail client

E-mail client

An email client, email reader, or more formally mail user agent , is a computer program used to manage a user's email.The term can refer to any system capable of accessing the user's email mailbox, regardless of it being a mail user agent, a relaying server, or a human typing on a terminal...

 and the SAProxy anti-spam filter
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which he sold to Yahoo! in October 2004
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He previously worked for Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...

's Systems Research Center

DEC Systems Research Center

The Systems Research Center was a research laboratory created by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1984, in Palo Alto, California....

, where he contributed to the AltaVista

AltaVista

AltaVista is a web search engine owned by Yahoo!. AltaVista was once one of the most popular search engines but its popularity declined with the rise of Google...

 search engine

Search engine

A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...

. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Baskin School of Engineering

Baskin School of Engineering

The Jack Baskin School of Engineering is the school of engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The school trains students in six areas of engineering: biotechnology/information technology/nanotechnology; bioengineering; information & communication infrastructure; mathematical and...

 at UC Santa Cruz, and has collaborated with the Internet Archive

Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It offers permanent storage and access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly 3 million public domain books. The Internet Archive...

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Stata is an alumnus of MIT, where he received bachelor's and master's

Master's degree

A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...

 degrees in Computer Science and Engineering in 1991, and a Ph.D.

Ph.D.

A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...

 in 1996 under advisor John Guttag

John Guttag

John V. Guttag is an American Computer Scientist, Professor and former Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT....

. Stata's father, Ray Stata

Ray Stata

Ray Stata is a cofounder and Chairman of the Board of Analog Devices, Inc..A native of Pennsylvania, Stata earned BSEE and MSEE degrees from MIT. In 1965 he founded Analog Devices with MIT classmate Matthew Lorber in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Stata was President of the company from 1971 to 1991...

, is founder and chairman of Analog Devices, Inc..

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• Home page at UCSC