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Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is a San Francisco based book publisher specialized in computer science and engineering.

The company was founded in 1984 by publishers Michael B. Morgan and William Kaufmann and computer scientist Nils Nilsson
Nils Nilsson

Nils J. Nilsson is one of the founding researchers in the discipline of Artificial intelligence. He is the Kumagai Professor of Engineering, Emeritus in Computer Science at Stanford University....
. It was held privately until 1998, when it was acquired by Harcourt General, Inc publisher and became an imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 of the Academic Press
Academic Press

Academic Press was an academic book publisher that is now part of Elsevier.See also * List of publishersExternal links * ...
, a subsidiary of Harcourt. Since 2001 it is an imprint of the Science and Technology division of the Elsevier
Elsevier

Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has substantial operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere....
 publisher.

It publishes across a broad spectrum of computer science areas including computer architecture, databases, artificial intelligence, HCI, software engineering and computer networking.






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Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is a San Francisco based book publisher specialized in computer science and engineering.

The company was founded in 1984 by publishers Michael B. Morgan and William Kaufmann and computer scientist Nils Nilsson
Nils Nilsson

Nils J. Nilsson is one of the founding researchers in the discipline of Artificial intelligence. He is the Kumagai Professor of Engineering, Emeritus in Computer Science at Stanford University....
. It was held privately until 1998, when it was acquired by Harcourt General, Inc publisher and became an imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 of the Academic Press
Academic Press

Academic Press was an academic book publisher that is now part of Elsevier.See also * List of publishersExternal links * ...
, a subsidiary of Harcourt. Since 2001 it is an imprint of the Science and Technology division of the Elsevier
Elsevier

Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has substantial operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere....
 publisher.

It publishes across a broad spectrum of computer science areas including computer architecture, databases, artificial intelligence, HCI, software engineering and computer networking. It published a number of influential books.

Book series

  • The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems edited by Jim Gray
  • The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies edited by Jonathan Grudin, Stuart Card and Jakob Nielsen
  • The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking edited by David Clark
  • The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics.


External links

  • at the Elsevier website