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A Heinz Family Foundation Honor
The Heinz Awards are given out annually by the Heinz Family Foundation to recognize individuals who had made important contributions in various areas of modern life. Bill and Dave jointly received the ...
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Condoleezza Rice on HP Board
Condoleezza Rice was the first woman to serve as National Security Advisor, the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State and the first woman of color to serve on the Hewlett-Packard board of d ...
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Employee Resource Groups
In the 1990s HP CEO Lew Platt oversaw a formal chartering process for HP’s working groups for minority and women employees. Chartered groups gained access to email, conference rooms, the HP logo and s ...
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HP Asian Indian Employees Network
The HP Asian Indian Employees Network was inaugurated in June 1996 with an elaborate ceremony at HP’s Palo Alto headquarters. The festivities included a traditional Indian dance performed by software ...
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Susan Packard Orr On HP Board
Susan Packard Orr (front row, second from right) charted her own course in the tech industry, founding Telosa Software in 1986. On September 17, 1993, she followed in her father Dave Packard’s footste ...
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The Need for Cellular: HP OmniGo 700LX
The OmniGo 700LX was an early attempt to create a cellular-networked computing device. The 700 could be hooked up to a Nokia cellular phone to wirelessly send and receive data, foretelling the potenti ...