David C. Nagel was most recently president and chief executive officer of PalmSource, Inc., a leading provider of operating system software platforms for smart mobile devices. Prior to PalmSource, Nagel was the chief technology officer at AT&T and president of AT&T Labs. Before joining AT&T, Nagel was senior vice president at Apple Computer, where he headed the advanced technology group and then led the worldwide research and development group, responsible for all Macintosh hardware and software products. Prior to Apple, Nagel had a long career at NASA�s Ames Research Center where he was head of human factors research. Nagel has served on a number of national and international advisory committees, including the first President�s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), on which he served five years for President William Clinton. Nagel is a member of the board of directors of Liberate Technologies, Inc., Nuance, Inc. and Tessera, Inc. and serves on the Boards of Trustees of the UCLA Foundation, the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at University of California, Berkeley and the SETI Institute. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering and a Ph.D. in perception and mathematical psychology, all from UCLA.
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