British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Dr David Packard - elected as an Honorary Fellow
President, Packard Humanities Institute

He has made outstanding contributions to the humanities through pioneering work in the application of computing to various fields of classical studies, and in the projects he has sponsored through the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI). His own academic contributions lie in ground-breaking work on the intersection of classical studies and computers, and he has promoted a series of major projects through the PHI to create tools for basic research in the humanities and to foster public interest in the history, literature, and music of the past. These have grown to encompass a wide range of activities specifically benefiting UK scholarship.