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Prentice Hall is a leading educational publisher. It is 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 Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey

Upper Saddle River is a Borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 7,741....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6-12 and higher education market. Prentice Hall distributes its technical titles through the Safari Books Online
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.

ctober 13, 1913, law professor Dr. Charles Gerstenberg and his student Richard Ettinger founded Prentice Hall.






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Prentice Hall is a leading educational publisher. It is 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 Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey

Upper Saddle River is a Borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 7,741....
, USA
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6-12 and higher education market. Prentice Hall distributes its technical titles through the Safari Books Online
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.

History

On October 13, 1913, law professor Dr. Charles Gerstenberg and his student Richard Ettinger founded Prentice Hall. Gerstenberg and Ettinger took their mothers' maiden names—Prentice and Hall—to name their new company.

Notable Titles

Prentice Hall is the publisher of Magruder's American Government as well as Biology by Ken Miller
Kenneth R. Miller

Kenneth R. Miller is a biology professor at Brown University. Miller, who is Roman Catholic, is particularly known for his opposition to creationism, including the intelligent design movement....
 and Joe Levine. Their artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Major AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"...
 series includes Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is a college textbook on Artificial Intelligence, written by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig....
 by Stuart J. Russell
Stuart J. Russell

Stuart Russell is a computer science known for his contributions to artificial intelligence.Stuart Russell was born in Portsmouth, England. He received his B.A....
 and Peter Norvig
Peter Norvig

Peter Norvig is an United States computer science. He is currently the Director of Research at GoogleHe is a Fellow and Councilor of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and co-author, with Stuart J....
 and ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham
Paul Graham

Paul Graham is a programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist, known for his work on Lisp . He is the author of On Lisp , ANSI Common Lisp , and Hackers & Painters ....
. They also published the well-known computer programming book The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan
Brian Kernighan

Brian Wilson Kernighan , is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs alongside Unix creators Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie and contributed greatly to Unix and its school of thought....
 and Dennis Ritchie
Dennis Ritchie

Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie is an American computer science notable for his influence on C and other programming languages, and on operating systems such as Multics and Unix....
.

See also

  • Pearson PLC
    Pearson PLC

    Pearson plc is a London-based education and mass media Conglomerate . It is the largest book publisher in the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the United States and Canada....


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