Ex-NASA man wraps himself in wireless.(Profile: David Nazel: techie looks inside for inspiration)(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)(Biography)

Wireless Week, February, 2005 by Brown, Karen

The evolving world of wireless communication is not rocket science, according to David Nagel. It's harder. He should know-Nagel, president of PalmSource, can look back on a colorful engineering career that included jobs at NASA designing flight systems and as head of AT&T's erstwhile Belt Labs research juggernaut.

He says his current work at wireless software provider PalmSource continues a common theme in his professional life: Use complex technology to make simple-to-use devices. That began with his early work as director of NASA's human factors division, a group that designed aviation and space systems that were easy to use and hard to break. After that he went on to Apple Computers and then AT&T, where he was chief technology officer and...

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