Joel Samuel Birnbaum (born December 20, 1937) is a technology executive who served as senior vice president of Hewlett-Packard.
[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.
[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".