Morgan Kaufmann Publishers is a
Burlington, Massachusetts
Burlington is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 26,377 at the 2020 census.
History
It is believed that Burlington takes its name from the English town of Bridlington, Yorkshire, but this has never b ...
(
San Francisco,
California until 2008) based publisher specializing in computer science and engineering content.
Since 1984, Morgan Kaufmann has published content on information technology, computer architecture, data management, computer networking, computer systems, human computer interaction, computer graphics, multimedia information and systems, artificial intelligence, computer security, and software engineering. Morgan Kaufmann's audience includes the research and development communities, information technology (IS/IT) managers, and students in professional degree programs.
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 and became an
imprint
Imprint or imprinting may refer to:
Entertainment
* ''Imprint'' (TV series), Canadian television series
* "Imprint" (''Masters of Horror''), episode of TV show ''Masters of Horror''
* ''Imprint'' (film), a 2007 independent drama/thriller film
...
of the
Academic Press, a subsidiary of Harcourt.
A profile of MK
/ref> Harcourt was acquired by Reed Elsevier in 2001; Morgan Kaufmann is now an imprint of the Science and Technology division of Elsevier.
Notable authors
* Adrian Farrel
*Michael L. Scott
Michael Lee Scott (born 1959) is a professor of computer science at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.
Education and teaching
Scott received a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985. He joined the faculty at R ...
References
External links
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Elsevier imprints
Computer book publishing companies
Publishing companies established in 1984
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