| Packard Humanities Institute | |
|---|---|
| Formation | 1987 |
| Type | NGO |
| Legal status | foundation |
| Purpose/focus | Humanities Research |
| Location | Los Altos, California |
| President | David Woodley Packard |
| Website | Official website |
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, and historic conservation, plus Greek epigraphy [1], with an aim to create tools for basic research in the Humanities.
Over the years, it has created databases on Latin literature, Bible texts, texts in Arabic and Coptic, Ancient Greek papyri and inscriptions, Founding Fathers of the United States: Benjamin Franklin and others, and also Persian literature in translation. It also funds external projects such as the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources.
PHI is also concerned with early education of children. The Institute is independent of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and is not associated in any way with any Hewlett-Packard Company foundations.
Its current president is former professor David Woodley Packard, who has served as a director, but never an officer, of Hewlett Packard.