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David Nagel

David Nagel is an American manager. He held executive positions in a wide variety of technology companies and organizations.

For the American politician, see David Nagel (politician).

David Nagel

PhD, Perception and Mathematical Psychology, UCLA[1]


MS 1968, Engineering, UCLA[2]


BS 1966, Engineering, UCLA

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]

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

Denning, Peter (April 2004). . Ubiquity. 2004 (April). ACM: 1. doi:10.1145/991108.985622. S2CID 12715892. Retrieved 2007-12-12.

"Changing lives through technology"

Berlind, David (2003-07-17). . ZDnet. Archived from the original on 2007-01-01. Retrieved 2007-01-01.

"David Nagel Unplugged: Can Palm re-connect?"