Prentice Hall
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Prentice Hall is a leading educational publisher. It is an imprint of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. 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 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.^[1]

Notable Titles

Prentice Hall is the publisher of Magruder's American Government as well as Biology by Ken Miller and Joe Levine. Their artificial intelligence series includes Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart J. Russell and Peter Norvig and ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham. They also published the well-known computer programming book The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.

See also

• Pearson PLC

References

1. ^ "About Pearson Prentice Hall". Retrieved on 2007-05-23.

External links

• Prentice Hall School website
• Prentice Hall website
• Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference website

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