Joel Birnbaum
Joel S. Birnbaum is Hewlett-Packard's Senior Vice President of Research & Development and Director of HP Laboratories (the company's central research and development organization), a position he assumed in 1991. He reports to the Chairman and CEO and serves as the company’s chief technology officer with responsibility for the coordination of worldwide activities in research and development.

Dr. Birnbaum joined HP in November 1980 as founding director of the Computer Research Center of HP Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. Prior to that, he had spent 15 years at IBM Corporation's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, where he last served as Director of Computer Sciences. He was appointed Vice President and Director of HP Laboratories in 1984, and served as Vice President and General Manager of the Information Technology Group from 1986-1988, supervising the development of PA-RISC hardware and software technology. From 1988 until 1991, he was Vice President and General Manager of the Information Architecture Group. Throughout his career he has been involved in the management of diverse activities in measurement, computing, and communication technologies. His personal contributions are in the areas of distributed computer system architecture, real-time data acquisition, analysis and control, and RISC processor architecture.

Dr. Birnbaum holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics from Cornell University (1960), and M.S. (1961) and Ph.D. (1965) degrees in Nuclear Physics from Yale University.

He has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc., a Foreign Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology, and a member of the Association of Computing Machinery. His board memberships include the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, the Technion University of Israel, the Tech Museum of Innovation, the Euphrat Museum of Art, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. He also serves on advisory councils at Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley.