David Nagel Explained

David Nagel
Education:	PhD, Perception and Mathematical Psychology, UCLA^[1] MS 1968, Engineering, UCLA^[2] BS 1966, Engineering, UCLA

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

Career

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

• 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

External links

• Changing lives through technology. Denning, Peter. Ubiquity. April 2004. ACM. 2004. April. 1. 2007-12-12. 10.1145/991108.985622. 12715892.
• Web site: Berlind . David . David Nagel Unplugged: Can Palm re-connect? . 2003-07-17 . ZDnet . 2007-01-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070101021654/http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0%2C14179%2C2914264-1%2C00.html . 2007-01-01 . dead.

Notes and References

1. http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/Board/nagelbio.html Board Biography David Nagel
2. Web site: UCLA Engineering, Fall 2006 . 2007-11-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080704184053/http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/magazine/fall06/alumninews.html . July 4, 2008 .
3. Web site: Human Factors in Aviation (Cognition and Perception). psycnet.apa.org. en. 2019-09-21.
4. Web site: Nagel details Apple's plans for Newton, Copland, Net. (Apple Senior VP David Nagel) (Company Business and Marketing)(Interview) HighBeam Business: Arrive Prepared . https://web.archive.org/web/20160406164230/https://business.highbeam.com/5338/article-1G1-17771689/nagel-details-apple-plans-newton-copland-net . 2016-04-06 . 2024-06-10 . business.highbeam.com.
5. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19960417&id=wdA0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=PSEGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3824,1806196 Apple loses research chief - David Nagel joins the team at AT&T Labs
6. Web site: David Nagel, Ph.D..