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David Woodley Packard, Ph.D. (born 1940) is a former
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and noted
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; he is the son of
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co-founder
David Packard David Packard ( ; September 7, 1912 – March 26, 1996) was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and chairman of the board (1964–68 ...
. A former HP
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member (1987–1999), David is best known for his opposition to the HP-Compaq merger and his support for
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, especially the digitization of classics research. He has made significant contribution to the study of the language and the sign repertory of the Minoan
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script. Packard currently serves as president of the
Packard Humanities Institute The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) is a non-profit foundation, established in 1987, and located in Los Altos, California, which funds projects in a wide range of conservation concerns in the fields of archaeology, music, film preservation, a ...
. Packard was responsible for acquiring, with
David and Lucile Packard Foundation The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation that provides grants to not-for-profit organizations. It was created in 1964 by David Packard (co-founder of HP) and his wife Lucile Salter Packard. Following David Packard's death ...
funds, the former Mount Pony facility for the
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in 1997; it has opened as the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. He also supports film preservation through the Packard Humanities Institute. Packard also currently runs operations of the Stanford Theatre. In 2000, Packard donated USD 5 million to fund an emergency excavation of the Zeugma archeological site, after reading about it in
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, allowing archeologists to preserve ancient mosaics that would otherwise be inundated by the
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. Packard was elected to the
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in 2006.


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David and Lucile Packard Foundation The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private foundation that provides grants to not-for-profit organizations. It was created in 1964 by David Packard (co-founder of HP) and his wife Lucile Salter Packard. Following David Packard's death ...
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Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (LPCH) is a nationally ranked women's and children's hospital which is part of the Stanford University Health system. The hospital is located adjacent to the campus at 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, Cal ...
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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 ...
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HP Garage The HP Garage is a private museum where the company Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded. It is located at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, California. It is considered to be the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley". In the 1930s, Stanford University and its ...
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) is a private, non-profit oceanographic research center in Moss Landing, California. MBARI was founded in 1987 by David Packard, and is primarily funded by the David and Lucile Packard Founda ...
* List of wealthiest foundations


References


Selected works

* (1967) A Study of the Minoan Linear A Tablets (unpublished doctoral dissertation, Harvard University) * (1968) Contextual and Statistical Analysis of Linear A // Atti e memorie der primo congresso internazionale di Micenologia 1, pp. 389–394. Rome. * (1968) A concordance to Livy. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. . * (1971) Computer Techniques in the Study of the Minoan Linear Script A // Kadmos 10:52-59. * (1974) Minoan Linear A. University of California Press. . Living people American classical scholars Harvard University alumni 1940 births People from the San Francisco Bay Area Classical philologists 20th-century American businesspeople {{US-business-bio-1940s-stub Members of the American Philosophical Society