Addison-Wesley

Addison-Wesley is a book publishing imprint of Pearson PLC, best known for computer books. As well as publishing books, Addison-Wesley distributes its technical titles through the Safari Books Online e-reference service.

History

Melbourne Wesley Cummings founded Addison-Wesley in 1942, with first book published by Addison-Wesley being MIT professor Francis Weston Sears' Mechanics. Its first computer book was Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. In 1970, Addison-Wesley acquired W.A. Benjamin Company, and merged with Benjamin Cummings in 1977. It was purchased by Pearson PLC in 1988.[1]

Notable books

• The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
• Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation For Computer Science by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik
• Evolutionary Biology (textbook) by Dr. Eli C. Minkoff
• Programming Ruby (First edition) by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt
• Code Reading by Diomidis Spinellis
• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
• The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup
• Software Architecture in Practice by Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman

External links

• Official site