Joel Samuel Birnbaum (born December 20, 1937) is a technology executive who served as senior vice president of Hewlett-Packard.
Joel S. Birnbaum | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | |
| Awards | IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Studies of Nuclear Transfer Reactions at High Energy (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | D. Allan Bromley |
Birnbaum earned a bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Cornell University, and a doctorate in nuclear physics from Yale University in 1966.[1] He worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1965 to 1980, eventually becoming director of computer sciences there. From 1980 until his retirement he worked for Hewlett-Packard, where he directed the Computer Research Center of HP Labs. In 1984 he was promoted to vice president at HP and director of HP Labs. He became a senior vice president in 1991.[2]
Birnbaum was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for scientific and management contributions to advanced computer architectures.[3]
He won the IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition Award in 2000 "for leadership in integrating, extending and shaping industrial research and development in measurement, computing and communications".[4]
In 2001 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.[5] He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[6]
References
edit- ^ Birnbaum, Joel Samuel (1966). Studies of Nuclear Transfer Reactions at High Energy (Ph.D.). Yale University. OCLC 702754526 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Board member profile, SETI Institute, retrieved 2015-06-14.
- ^ Member profile, National Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2015-06-14.
- ^ IEEE Ernst Weber Managerial Leadership Award recipients, retrieved 2015-06-14.
- ^ ACM Fellows award citation, retrieved 2015-06-14.
- ^ Joel Birnbaum, Computer History Museum, retrieved 2015-06-14.