Addison-Wesley
Encyclopedia
Addison-Wesley was a book publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, best known for its textbooks and computer literature. As well as publishing books, Addison-Wesley also distributed its technical titles through the Safari Books Online
e-reference service. It is now an imprint of Pearson Education
.
's Mechanics. Its first computer book was Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. In 1977, Addison-Wesley acquired W. A. Benjamin Company, and merged it with the Cummings division of the company to form Benjamin Cummings
. It was purchased by Pearson PLC
in 1988 and became part of Addison Wesley Longman in 1994. The trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley was sold to Perseus Books in 1997, leaving Addison-Wesley as solely an educational publisher. Pearson acquired the educational division of Simon & Schuster
in 1998, and merged it with Addison Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education
. Pearson Education moved the former Addison Wesley Longman offices from Reading to Boston in 2004.
Safari Books Online
Safari Books Online LLC is a digital library founded in July 2001 and headquartered in Sebastopol, CA with offices in Boston, MA and San Francisco, CA...
e-reference service. It is now an imprint of Pearson Education
Pearson Education
Pearson Education is an international educational publishing and technology company providing textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools...
.
History
Melbourne Wesley Cummings and Lew Addison Cummings founded Addison-Wesley in 1942, with the first book published by Addison-Wesley being MIT professor Francis Weston SearsFrancis Sears
Francis Weston Sears was an American physicist. He was a professor of physics at MIT for 35 years before moving to Dartmouth College in 1956 and is best known for co-authoring a frequently tapped into introductory physics textbook with Mark Zemansky, often referred to as Sears and Zemansky...
's Mechanics. Its first computer book was Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. In 1977, Addison-Wesley acquired W. A. Benjamin Company, and merged it with the Cummings division of the company to form Benjamin Cummings
Benjamin Cummings
Benjamin Cummings is a publishing imprint of Pearson Education that specializes in science. Benjamin Cummings publishes medical textbooks, anatomy and physiology laboratory manuals, biology and microbiology textbooks, and health/kinesiology textbooks....
. It was purchased by Pearson PLC
Pearson PLC
Pearson plc is a global media and education company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is both the largest education company and the largest book publisher in the world, with consumer imprints including Penguin, Dorling Kindersley and Ladybird...
in 1988 and became part of Addison Wesley Longman in 1994. The trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley was sold to Perseus Books in 1997, leaving Addison-Wesley as solely an educational publisher. Pearson acquired the educational division of Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...
in 1998, and merged it with Addison Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education
Pearson Education
Pearson Education is an international educational publishing and technology company providing textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools...
. Pearson Education moved the former Addison Wesley Longman offices from Reading to Boston in 2004.
Notable books
- The UK Internet Book by Sue Schofield
- The Art of Computer ProgrammingThe Art of Computer ProgrammingThe Art of Computer Programming is a comprehensive monograph written by Donald Knuth that covers many kinds of programming algorithms and their analysis....
by Donald KnuthDonald KnuthDonald Ervin Knuth is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms... - The Feynman Lectures on PhysicsThe Feynman Lectures on PhysicsThe Feynman Lectures on Physics is a 1964 physics textbook by Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew Sands, based upon the lectures given by Feynman to undergraduate students at the California Institute of Technology in 1961–63. It includes lectures on mathematics, electromagnetism,...
by Richard FeynmanRichard FeynmanRichard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics...
, Robert B. Leighton, and Matthew Sands - Calculus and Analytical Geometry by George B. ThomasGeorge B. ThomasGeorge Brinton Thomas, Jr. was a professor of mathematics at MIT. He is best known for being the author of a widely-used calculus textbook.-Early life:Born in Boise, Idaho, Thomas' early years were difficult...
and Ross Lee Finney, based on a course taught at MIT. - Concrete MathematicsConcrete MathematicsConcrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science, by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik, is a mathematical textbook that is widely used in computer-science departments. It provides mathematical knowledge and skills for computer science, especially for the analysis of algorithms...
: A Foundation For Computer Science by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik - Evolutionary BiologyEvolutionary Biology (textbook)Evolutionary Biology is a college-level evolutionary biology textbook written by Eli C. Minkoff that is 627 pages long. It was published in 1983 by Addison-Wesley. This is Dr. Minkoff's first foray into the world of college-level textbook authorship...
by Dr. Eli C. Minkoff - Programming Pearls by Jon BentleyJon BentleyJon Louis Bentley is a researcher in the field of computer science. He is credited with the invention of the k-d tree....
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John VlissidesJohn VlissidesJohn Matthew Vlissides was a software scientist known mainly as one of the four authors of the book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software...
- The C++ Programming LanguageThe C++ Programming LanguageThe C++ Programming Language was the first book to describe the C++ programming language, written by the language’s creator, Bjarne Stroustrup, and first published in October 1985...
by Bjarne StroustrupBjarne StroustrupBjarne Stroustrup ; born December 30, 1950 in Århus, Denmark) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C++ programming language... - Hacker's DelightHacker's DelightHacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr., is a book published by Addison-Wesley Professional July 17, 2002. It discusses a variety of programming algorithms for common tasks involving integer types, often with the aim of performing the minimum number of operations or replacing slow operations by...
by Henry S. Warren, Jr. - Exploratory data analysisExploratory data analysisIn statistics, exploratory data analysis is an approach to analysing data sets to summarize their main characteristics in easy-to-understand form, often with visual graphs, without using a statistical model or having formulated a hypothesis...
by John W. Tukey, based on a course taught at Princeton. - The Mythical Man-MonthThe Mythical Man-MonthThe Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software engineering and project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later"...
by Fred P. Brooks. Jr.Fred BrooksFrederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. is a software engineer and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month... - Advanced Programming in the UNIX EnvironmentAdvanced Programming in the Unix EnvironmentAdvanced Programming in the Unix Environment is a computer programming book by W. Richard Stevens describing the application programming interface of the UNIX family of operating systems. The book illustrates UNIX application programming in the C programming language.The first edition of the book...
and TCP/IP IllustratedTCP/IP IllustratedTCP/IP Illustrated is the name of a series of 3 books written by W. Richard Stevens. Unlike traditional books which explain the RFC specifications, Stevens goes into great detail using actual network traces to describe the protocol, hence its 'Illustrated' title.The first book in the series,...
by W. Richard StevensW. Richard StevensWilliam Richard Stevens was one of the most famous and widely acclaimed authors of UNIX and TCP/IP books.-Biography:... - New Horizons in English by Michael Walker and Lars Mellgren - 6 Book series
- Iron John: A Book About MenIron John: A Book About MenIron John: A Book About Men is a book by American poet Robert Bly published in 1990 by Addison-Wesley.It analyzes Iron John, a Brothers Grimm fairy tale, in Joseph Campbell fashion, to find lessons especially meaningful to men...
by Robert BlyRobert BlyRobert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.-Life:Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, to Jacob and Alice Bly, who were of Norwegian ancestry. Following graduation from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving...