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Packard and Hewlett made a combined donation of $77 million to Stanford in 1994, [30] for which the university named the David Packard Electrical Engineering Building in his honor. [31] Packard was a member of the American Enterprise Institute's board of trustees.
David Woodley Packard (born 1940) is an American former professor and philanthropist; he is the son of Hewlett-Packard co-founder David Packard.A former HP board member (1987–1999), David is best known for his opposition to the HP-Compaq merger [1] and his support for classical studies, especially the digitization of classics research.
The Rules were first articulated in 1999 by then HP CEO Carly Fiorina - during her tenure as then HP CEO - and they were later used in a Hewlett-Packard ad campaign. [1] The name was a reference to David Packard's garage in Palo Alto, in which Packard and Bill Hewlett first founded the company after graduating from nearby Stanford University in ...
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 in 1996, the Foundation became the beneficiary of part of his estate.
The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939, and initially produced a line of electronic test and measurement equipment. The HP Garage at 367 Addison Avenue is now designated an official California Historical Landmark, and is marked with a plaque calling it the "Birthplace of ' Silicon ...
Hewlett-Packard's first product, built in the garage, was an audio oscillator, the HP200A. [8] One of Hewlett-Packard's first customers was Walt Disney Studios, [9] which purchased eight oscillators to test and certify the sound systems in theaters that were going to run the first major film released in stereophonic sound, Fantasia. [10]
This List of Hewlett-Packard executive leadership includes chairmen, presidents and CEOs of Hewlett-Packard. Co-founder: David Packard (President: 1947; Chairman: 1964–1969; Chairman 1971–1993) Co-founder: William Hewlett (Vice President: 1947; Executive Vice President: 1957; President: 1964; CEO: 1969; Chairman of the Executive Committee ...
Hewlett attended undergraduate classes taught by Fred Terman at Stanford and became acquainted with David Packard. Packard and he began discussing forming a company in August 1937, and founded Hewlett-Packard Company as a partnership on January 1, 1939. A flip of a coin decided the ordering of their names. [3]