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William Reddington Hewlett ( May 20 , 1913 – January 12 , 2001 ) was the co-founder, with David Packard , of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) . He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan but moved to San Francisco at the age of 3 years. He attended Lowell High School and was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father, Albion Walter Hewlett, who had died prematurely of a brain tumor in 1925 . Hewlett received his Bachelor's Degree from Stanford University in 1934 , an SM degree in EECS (course 6) from MIT in 1936 , and the degree of Electrical Engineer from Stanford in 1939 . Hewlett attended classes taught by Fred Terman at Stanford and became acquainted with David Packard during his undergraduate work at Stanford. He and Packard began discussing forming a company in August of 1937 , and formally incorporated Hewlett-Packard Company on January 1 , 1939 . In 1939, he also married Flora Lamson, and the couple eventually had five children: Eleanor, Walter, James, William and Mary. He was President of HP from 1964 to 1977 , and served as CEO from 1968 to 1978 , when he was succeeded by John A. Young . He remained chairman of the executive committee until 1983 , and then served as vice chairman of the board until 1987 . In 1966 , he and his wife founded the William And Flora Hewlett Foundation . Flora Hewlett died in 1977 , and in 1978 . Hewlett married Rosemary Bradford. In 1995 he received the Lemelson-MIT Prize Lifetime Achievement Award. EXTERNAL LINKS
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