Karl V. Karlstom

Early computer science textbook editor who put Prentice-Hall in the forefront, but who lost heart when he learned that the best textbook criteria are short words, big type, wide margins, and colored illustrations. ACM named its education award after him.

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Karl Karlstrom died in 1988. (THVV, 2017)

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