| Parent company | Pearson Education |
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| Founded | 1942 |
| Founder | Lew Addison Cummings, Melbourne Wesley Cummings |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Boston |
| Publication types | Textbooks |
| Nonfiction topics | Computer Science, Econogmics, Finance, Mathematics, and Statistics |
| Official website | www.pearsonschool.com (school), www.pearsonhighered.com (higher education), informit.com (professional) |
Addison-Wesley was a book publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, best known for its textbooks and computer literature. As well as publishing books, Addison-Wesley also distributed its technical titles through the Safari Books Online e-reference service. It is now an imprint of Pearson Education.
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Melbourne Wesley Cummings and Lew Addison Cummings founded Addison-Wesley in 1942, with the first book published by Addison-Wesley being MIT professor Francis Weston Sears's Mechanics. Its first computer book was Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. In 1977, Addison-Wesley acquired W. A. Benjamin Company, and merged it with the Cummings division of the company to form Benjamin Cummings. It was purchased by Pearson PLC in 1988[1] and became part of Addison Wesley Longman in 1994. The trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley was sold to Perseus Books in 1997, leaving Addison-Wesley as solely an educational publisher.[2] Pearson acquired the educational division of Simon & Schuster in 1998, and merged it with Addison Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education. Pearson Education moved the former Addison Wesley Longman offices from Reading to Boston in 2004.
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