verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . february 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message this article does not cite any sources . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . february 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . february 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message prentice hall parent company pearson education founded 1913 founder charles gerstenberg and richard ettinger country of origin united states headquarters location upper saddle river new jersey publication types books official website prenticehall.com prentice hall is a major educational publisher owned by pearson plc. 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 . contents 1 history 2 notable titles 3 in personal computer history 4 see also 5 references 6 external links history edit 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 prentice hall was acquired by gulf western in 1984 and became part of that company s publishing division simon & schuster . publication of trade books ended in 1991 . simon & schuster s educational division including prentice hall was sold to pearson by g w successor viacom in 1998 . notable titles edit 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 and operating systems design and implementation by andrew s. tanenbaum . in personal computer history edit a prentice hall subsidiary reston publishing was in the foreground of technical book publishing when microcomputers were first becoming available . it was still unclear who would be buying and using personal computers and the scarcity of useful software and instruction created a publishing market niche whose target audience yet had to be defined . in the spirit of the pioneers who made pcs possible reston publishing s editors addressed non technical users with the reassuring and mildly experimental computer anatomy for beginners by marlin ouverson of people s computer company . they followed with a collection of books that was generally by and for programmers building a stalwart list of titles relied on by many in the first generation of microcomputers users . see also edit pearson plc prentice hall international series in computer science references edit about pearson prentice hall . archived from the original on may 3 2007 . retrieved 2007 05 23 . external links edit prentice hall website prentice hall school website prentice hall higher education website prentice hall professional technical reference website v t e pearson plc financial times group the banker fdi investors chronicle money management pwm vedomosti 33 % pearson education pearson school addison wesley dorling kindersley heinemann outside us modern curriculum press prentice hall scott foresman silver burdett york notes pearson higher education addison wesley allyn & bacon benjamin cummings longman prentice hall propero pearson professional addison wesley professional adobe press apple certified 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