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Joel S. Birnbaum

Also Known As Joel Birnbaum · Joel Samuel Birnbaum
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Joel Samuel Birnbaum (born December 20, 1937) is a technology executive who served as senior vice president of Hewlett-Packard. He worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center from 1965 to 1980, becoming director of computer sciences there, then joined Hewlett-Packard, directing the Computer Research Center of HP Labs and becoming vice president and director of HP Labs in 1984. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for scientific and management contributions to advanced computer architectures, and became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2001.

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1937 1
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1937-12-20 2
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IEEE Fellow 3
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Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering 3
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ACM Fellow 3
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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3
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1. Engineering and Technology History Wiki: Joel S. Birnbaum - ETHW
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