David Nagel, President and CEO of PalmSource, Joins Nuance's Board of Directors.MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif. -- Nuance (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :NUAN NUAN New User Action Notation (modeling language) ), the voice automation expert, today announced that David Nagel, the President, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , and a member of the Board of Directors of PalmSource, Inc., has joined Nuance's Board of Directors. Mr. Nagel was elected at Nuance's board meeting on December 2, 2004. "David brings to us an exceptional background in speech, user interface and wireless technologies," said Chuck Berger, president and CEO of Nuance. "Additionally, his unique understanding of the service provider market, coupled with his success as a CEO of an early stage company, makes him a strong addition to our board." "Nuance's voice technologies have an incredible potential to improve the customer experience in the call center market and to enable new services for the mobile professional," said David Nagel, president and CEO, PalmSource. "I'm excited to work with Chuck and his team to help further Nuance's acknowledged leadership and advance the frontiers of voice automation." As President and CEO of PalmSource, Mr. Nagel's charter is to help to create and lead an exciting new company developing platform software for mobile devices. Prior to joining PalmSource, Mr. Nagel was the chief technology officer at AT&T and president of AT&T Labs. As AT&T's chief technology officer, Mr. Nagel led the Company's technology strategy and R&D planning. As president of AT&T Labs, he was responsible for managing all company research and development for the Company's data services and managed commercial services, as well as AT&T's Business Services IT systems. Prior to joining AT&T, Mr. Nagel was senior vice president at Apple Computer, where he led the worldwide research and development group responsible for Mac OS software, Macintosh hardware, imaging and other peripheral products development. Before joining Apple in 1988, Mr. Nagel was head of NASA's human factors research. Mr. Nagel has served on a number of national and international advisory committees. In February 1997, he was named to President Clinton's Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC PITAC President's Information Technology Advisory Committee PITAC President'S Information and Technology Advisory Committee ). Mr. Nagel is a member of the board of directors of Liberate, Inc., a public corporation, and ArcSoft, a private company developing imaging software solutions. He was recently named to the board of directors of the SETI SETI (sĕt`ē) [Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence], name given to a series of independent programs to detect radio signals from civilizations beyond the solar system. Institute, a non-profit corporation. Mr. Nagel holds undergraduate and graduate degrees including a doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles UCLA comprises the College of Letters and Science (the primary undergraduate college), seven professional schools, and five professional Health Science schools. Since 2001, UCLA has enrolled over 33,000 total students, and that number is steadily rising. . About Nuance In markets around the world, leading enterprises and telecommunications carriers -- including Avon, British Airways British Airways in full British Airways PLC International passenger airline based in London. In 1936 British Airways Ltd. was founded through the merger of three smaller airlines. , Expedia, Nomura Securities, OnStar, Sprint PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. , United Parcel Service United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages[1] a day to 6.1 million customers in over 200 countries and territories around the world. , Vodafone and Wells Fargo -- have worked with Nuance to ensure the best possible results from their investment in voice. Nuance is a leader in the voice automation market, providing software and solutions to more than 1,000 companies worldwide. Nuance (NASDAQ:NUAN) is headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., and has offices around the world. For more information, visit www.nuance.com or call 1-888-NUANCE-8. This press release contains forward-looking statements with respect to Nuance, including, for example, those relating to the business and customer benefits attainable by using Nuance speech products. There is no assurance that the results contemplated by any forward-looking statements will be realized. The following factors, risks and uncertainties, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements: the risk that any of these products will not achieve anticipated or projected acceptance in the marketplace and improvements in customer experience satisfaction or other benefits in some or all circumstances; and other factors described in Nuance's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to Nuance's last-filed Form 10-Q Form 10-Q See 10-Q. . Nuance does not undertake to update any oral or written forward-looking statements that may be made by or on behalf of Nuance. Nuance is a registered trademark of Nuance Communications, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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