Prentice Hall

On October 13, 1913, law professor 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.{{cite web

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|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070503010108/http://www.phschool.com/about_ph/ |archive-date=May 3, 2007 }} At the time the name was usually styled as Prentice-Hall (as seen for example on many title pages), per an orthographic norm for coordinate elements within such compounds (compare also McGraw-Hill with later styling as McGraw Hill). Prentice-Hall became known as a publisher of trade books by authors such as Norman Vincent Peale; elementary, secondary, and college textbooks; loose-leaf information services; and professional books. Prentice-Hall acquired the training provider Deltak in 1979.

Prentice-Hall was acquired by Gulf+Western in 1984, and became part of that company's publishing division Simon & Schuster.{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = Cole| first = Robert J.| title = Prentice Accepts $71 Bid by G.& W.| work = The New York Times| access-date = 2019-04-02| date = 1984-11-27| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/27/business/prentice-accepts-71-bid-by-g-w.html}} S&S sold several Prentice-Hall subsidiaries: Deltak and Resource Systems were sold to National Education Center.{{Cite web| title = 2 GW Divisions Acquired by National Educational| work = Los Angeles Times| access-date = 2019-10-15| date = 1986-03-06| url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-06-fi-15952-story.html}} Reston Publishing was closed.{{Cite news| issn = 0190-8286| last1 = Tucker| first1 = Elizabeth| last2 = Schrage| first2 = Michael| title = Publishing Firm Ends Operations In Reston Unit| newspaper = The Washington Post| access-date = 2019-10-15| date = 1985-05-15| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1985/05/15/publishing-firm-ends-operations-in-reston-unit/bfe999ae-bffe-474a-a00e-c0c357fa6f45/}}

In 1989, Prentice Hall Information Services was sold to Macmillan Inc.{{Cite news| issn = 0458-3035| pages = 3| title = P. M. Briefing 2 Simon & Schuster Units Sold|edition=P.M. Final| work = Los Angeles Times | date = 1989-10-31| id ={{ProQuest|280803448}}}} In 1990, Prentice Hall Press, a trade book publisher, was moved to Simon & Schuster Trade and Prentice Hall's reference & travel was moved to Simon & Schuster's mass market unit. Publication of trade books ended in 1991. In 1994, Gulf+Western successor Paramount was sold to Viacom.{{Cite news|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1994/02/16/viacom-captures-paramount/|title=Viacom captures Paramount|work=tribunedigital-baltimoresun|access-date=2018-09-12|language=en}} Prentice Hall Legal & Financial Services was sold to CSC Networks and CDB Infotek. Wolters Kluwer acquired Prentice Hall Law & Business.{{Cite web| title = S&S sells two peripheral assets| work = Publishers Weekly| access-date = 2019-10-15| date = 1994-11-28| url = http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A15907600/LitRC?sid=googlescholar}} Simon & Schuster's educational division, including Prentice Hall, was sold to Pearson plc by G+W successor Viacom in 1998. Subsequently, Pearson absorbed Prentice Hall's higher education and technical reference titles into Pearson Education. Pearson sold its K-12 educational publishing in the United States in 2019; the division was renamed Savvas Learning. K-12 and school titles of Prentice Hall were absorbed into Savvas Learning along with Prentice Hall web domains which redirected to Savvas Learning homepage and the trademarks for Prentice Hall were transferred to Savvas Learning Company.{{Cite web |title=PRENTICE-HALL Trademark of SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY LLC – Registration Number 1332044 – Serial Number 73495332 :: Justia Trademarks |url=http://trademarks.justia.com/734/95/prentice-73495332.html |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=trademarks.justia.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=PRENTICE-HALL Trademark of SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY LLC – Registration Number 1375654 – Serial Number 73541919 :: Justia Trademarks |url=http://trademarks.justia.com/735/41/prentice-73541919.html |access-date=2023-10-10 |website=trademarks.justia.com |language=en}}

Prentice Hall is the publisher of Magruder's American Government as well as Biology by Ken Miller and Joe Levine, and Sociology and Society: The Basics by John Macionis. 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. Winthrop Publishers, a Cambridge, Massachusetts–based subsidiary of Prentice Hall,{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110544982/the-ithaca-journal/ | title=Computer Text Is Updated | newspaper=The Ithaca Journal | date=June 30, 1975 | page=6 | via=Newspapers.com}} published a series of books on programming beginning in the mid-1970s that was edited by Richard W. Conway.{{cite web | url=https://www.cs.cornell.edu/information/timeline | title=Cornell Department of Computer Science: 50 Years of Innovation | publisher=Cornell Bowers CIS | access-date=September 15, 2022}} Other titles include Dennis Nolan's Big Pig (1976), Monster Bubbles: A Counting Book (1976), Alphabrutes (1977), Wizard McBean and his Flying Machine (1977), Witch Bazooza (1979), Llama Beans (1979, with author Charles Keller), and The Joy of Chickens (1981).

A Prentice Hall subsidiary, Reston Publishing,{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times

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|date=February 1, 1982}} 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.

• Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science

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• [http://www.informit.com/imprint/index.aspx?st=61089 Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference website]

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