Ray Stata and the Stata Center gift

Mentioned to identify Ray Stata as co-author of the foreword to *A New American TQM* and as founder of Analog Devices.

[Tom holds up the book A New American TQM.] I'll pass this around if you want to flip through it as I'm talking. I'd say it's worth skimming. Professor Shiba was from Tohoku University. They brought him over. He wrote the book. I took the class as one of the MIT faculty who were encouraged in the manufacturing program to take his class on TQM. It was published by Productivity Press, which was established in '89 by ten area executives and three MIT faculty. One of the forewords was written by Ray Stata. Anybody know who Stata is, other than former Analog Devices chairman, founder? You ever seen the Stata Center in electrical engineering? He gave the first 25 million.