Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is a San Francisco (formerly San Mateo, CA) based book publisher specialized in computer science and engineering.
The company was founded in 1984 by publishers Michael B. Morgan and William Kaufmann and computer scientist Nils Nilsson. It was held privately until 1998, when it was acquired by Harcourt General, Inc publisher and became an imprint of the Academic Press, a subsidiary of Harcourt. Since 2001 it is an imprint of the Science and Technology division of the Elsevier publisher.[1]
It publishes across a broad spectrum of computer science areas including computer architecture, databases, artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, software engineering and computer networking. It publishes a number of influential books by authors who are experts in their fields.
Book series
- The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems edited by Jim Gray
- The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies edited by Jonathan Grudin, Stuart Card and Jakob Nielsen
- The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking edited by David Clark
- The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics.
References
External links
- Morgan Kaufmann portal at the Elsevier website
- All of Morgan Kaufmann books can be found at Amazon.com
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