Stata receives lifetime achievement award

Ray Stata, cofounder and chairman of Analog Devices Inc. of Norwood, has received the 2008 ACE Lifetime Achievement Award from the editorial board of EE Times, Analog Devices said.

ACE stands for "annual creativity in electronics," and Stata was honored for his contributions to technology innovation in the electronics industry and his more than 50 years of corporate leadership.

Analog Devices is a leading maker of signal processing chips.

Stata may also be well known among Cambridge architecture buffs. He was a lead donor for the Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences (left) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The controversial building was designed by architect Frank O. Gehry.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)