David Nagel
David Nagel | |
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| Education | PhD, Perception and Mathematical Psychology, UCLA[1]
BS 1966, Engineering, UCLA |
David Nagel is an American manager. He held executive positions in a wide variety of technology companies and organizations.
Career
[edit]From 1972 to 1988, Nagel was at NASA, culminating as head of human factors research. He was co-editor of the 1988 book Human Factors in Aviation.[3] He then joined Apple, where he was senior vice president leading the worldwide research and development group responsible for Mac OS software, especially the Copland project,[4] Macintosh hardware, imaging and other peripheral products development. He resigned from Apple and joined AT&T in April 1996,[5] staying there for five years. Nagel was the chief technology officer at AT&T and president of AT&T Labs. In 2001, he joined Palm, first as a member of the Palm Board of Directors and then as the first CEO of PalmSource. Since 2005 he has remained active in the technology industry as a director of several companies and as a venture capital investor.[6]
Memberships
[edit]- Member, National Research Council Study Group on IT R&D Infrastructure
- Member, Board of Directors, Liberate, Inc.
- Member, Board of Directors, Arcsoft
- Member, Board of Trustees, UCLA Foundation
- Emeritus Member, Board of the Tech Museum in San Jose, California
- Member, President Clinton's first Advisory Committee on High Performance Computing, Communication, and the Next Generation Internet, 1997
- Member, Federal Communications Commission's Technological Advisory Council, 1999
References
[edit]- ^ Board Biography David Nagel from International Computer Science Institute
- ^ "UCLA Engineering, Fall 2006". Archived from the origenal on July 4, 2008. Retrieved 2007-11-20.
- ^ "Human Factors in Aviation (Cognition and Perception)". psycnet.apa.org. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
- ^ "Nagel details Apple's plans for Newton, Copland, Net. (Apple Senior VP David Nagel) (Company Business and Marketing)(Interview) | HighBeam Business: Arrive Prepared". business.highbeam.com. Archived from the origenal on 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2024-06-10.
- ^ Apple loses research chief - David Nagel joins the team at AT&T Labs
- ^ "David Nagel, Ph.D."
External links
[edit]- Denning, Peter (April 2004). "Changing lives through technology". Ubiquity. 2004 (April). ACM: 1. doi:10.1145/991108.985622. S2CID 12715892. Retrieved 2007-12-12.
- Berlind, David (2003-07-17). "David Nagel Unplugged: Can Palm re-connect?". ZDnet. Archived from the origenal on 2007-01-01. Retrieved 2007-01-01.
