Joel Samuel Birnbaum (born December 20, 1937) is a technology executive who served as senior vice president of

Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...

. Birnbaum earned a bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Cornell University, and a doctorate in nuclear physics from Yale University in 1966. 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

, where he directed the Computer Research Center of

HP Labs HP Labs is the exploratory and advanced research group for HP Inc. HP Labs' headquarters is in Palo Alto, California and the group has research and development facilities in Bristol, UK. The development of programmable desktop calculators, ink ...

. In 1984 he was promoted to vice president at HP and director of HP Labs. He became a senior vice president in 1991.Board member profile
SETI Institute, retrieved 2015-06-14. Birnbaum was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 for scientific and management contributions to advanced computer architectures. He won the

IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition Through its awards program, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recognizes contributions that advance the fields of interest to the IEEE. For nearly a century, the IEEE Awards Program has paid tribute to technical professionals ...

Award in 2000 "for leadership in integrating, extending and shaping industrial research and development in measurement, computing and communications". In 2001 he became a Fellow of the

Association for Computing Machinery The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...

. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the

Royal Academy of Engineering The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is the United Kingdom's national academy of engineering. The Academy was founded in June 1976 as the Fellowship of Engineering with support from Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who became the first senior ...

, and the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

.Joel Birnbaum
Computer History Museum, retrieved 2015-06-14.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Birnbaum, Joel S. Living people Cornell University College of Engineering alumni Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering 1937 births