Editing Addison-Wesley (section)

==History==
Lew Addison Cummings and Melbourne Wesley Cummings founded Addison–Wesley in 1942, with the first book published by Addison–Wesley being [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] professor [[Francis Weston Sears]]' ''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 the global publishing and education company [[Pearson PLC]] in 1988<ref name="Pearson: History">{{cite web|url=http://www.pearson.com/index.cfm?pageid=14 |access-date=2013-05-14|archive-date=2006-07-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711035850/http://www.pearson.com/index.cfm?pageid=14|url-status=dead|title=History|publisher=Pearson}}</ref> and became part of Addison Wesley Longman in 1994. The trade publishing division of Addison–Wesley was sold to [[Perseus Books Group]] in 1997, leaving Addison–Wesley as solely an educational publisher.<ref>{{cite news |title=Perseus Books Buys Addison-Wesley Unit |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/22/business/perseus-books-buys-addison-wesley-unit.html |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |date= December 22, 1997 |access-date=November 13, 2011}}</ref> Pearson acquired the educational division of [[Simon & Schuster]] in 1998, and merged it with Addison Wesley Longman to form [[Pearson Education]] and subsequently rebranded to Pearson in 2011. Pearson moved the former Addison Wesley Longman offices from [[Reading, Massachusetts]], to Boston in 2004. Its current executives hail from the original Addison–Wesley with a storied history of their own.