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
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...
, culminating as head of human factors research. He was co-editor of the 1988 book Human Factors in Aviation. He then joined
Apple
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, where he was senior vice president leading the worldwide research and development group responsible for
Mac OS software
The following is a list of Mac software – notable computer applications for current macOS operating systems.
For software designed for the Classic Mac OS, see List of old Macintosh software.
Audio software
Digital audio workstations
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, especially the
Copland project,
Macintosh
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hardware, imaging and other peripheral products development. He resigned from Apple and joined AT&T in April 1996, staying there for five years. Nagel was the chief technology officer at
AT&T
AT&T Inc., an abbreviation for its predecessor's former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the w ...
and president of
AT&T Labs
AT&T Labs, Inc. (formerly AT&T Laboratories, Inc.) is the research & development division of AT&T, the telecommunications company. It employs some 1,800 people in various locations, including: Bedminster, New Jersey; Middletown Township, New J ...
. In 2001, he joined
Palm
Palm most commonly refers to:
* Palm of the hand, the central region of the front of the hand
* Palm plants, of family Arecaceae
** List of Arecaceae genera
**Palm oil
* Several other plants known as "palm"
Palm or Palms may also refer to:
Music ...
, 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.
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
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Apple Inc. executives
Businesspeople in software
Place of birth missing (living people)
American technology chief executives
American chief technology officers
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni