Word: stata
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According to board member Ray Stata, the president of a Norwood, Mass., high-tech firm who made the proposal, the program would improve the quality of education in those areas by increasing funds for equipment. Schinner opposes the plan, saying that the policy would be divisive to professors, whose relative salaries could come under consideration and students, who might choose majors based on cost...
...their field, many because they feel useless or technologically obsolescent. Yet by 1985 the U.S. is expected to suffer from a shortage of more than 100,000 engineers. This gap cannot be closed by increasing the output of engineering schools, which are at their production limit. As Ray Stata, president of Analog Devices, told the M.I.T. symposium, "Our only viable strategy for coping is for industry to increase the productivity, retention and competence of those engineers already engaged in the profession...
...have a computer in their office. Explains an underling: "For these guys in their 50s, computers just aren't part of their ethic." Such an attitude is now widespread. "The idea of an executive sitting in his office programming a computer is, well, just not realistic," insists Ray Stata, president of Analog Devices, a computer-parts maker. John Pignataro, vice president of data processing for the Sheraton hotel chain, agrees. "Tools like the personal computer will be most useful at lower levels. I think those who will really use the personal computer could be considered the doer...