Paul E. Ceruzzi

Paul E. Ceruzzi
Alma mater	Yale University, University of Kansas
Scientific career
Fields	Aerospace electronics, computing, microelectronics, missile guidance & control[1]
Institutions	Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

Paul E. Ceruzzi (born 1949) is curator emeritus at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.[2]

Life

Ceruzzi received a BA from Yale University in 1970 and received a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1981, both in American studies.[1] Before joining the National Air and Space Museum, he was a Fulbright scholar[3] in Hamburg, Germany, and taught History of Technology at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.[4] Ceruzzi is the author and co-author of several books on the history of computing and aerospace technology. He has curated or assisted in the mounting of several exhibitions at NASM, including: Beyond the Limits - Flight Enters the Computer Age, The Global Positioning System - A New Constellation, Space Race, How Things Fly and the James McDonnell Space Hangar of the museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, at Dulles Airport.

Works

• Reckoners: The Prehistory of The Digital Computer (1983)
• Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age (1989)
• Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History (with Peggy A. Kidwell, 1994)[5]
• A History of Modern Computing (1998)
• Ceruzzi, Paul E (May 2003). A History of Modern Computing (2nd ed.). MIT Press. pp. 445. ISBN 978-0-262-53203-7. [6]
• Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 (2008).
• Computing: A Concise History (2012)
• GPS (2018)
• A New History of Modern Computing (with Thomas Haigh, 2021)

References

1. "AERONAUTICS AND SPACE HISTORY RESEARCH STAFF". Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum. 18 June 2004. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
2. "Paul E. Ceruzzi - The MIT Press". Archived from the original on 2008-12-21. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
3. "Paul Ceruzzi: Links". Archived from the original on 2009-05-29. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
4. "2004 MAPLD International Conference: Paul Ceruzzi Biography". Retrieved 2009-04-12.
5. Reviews of Landmarks in Digital Computing:
   • Hammerton, James Cecil (February 1994), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews, ISBN 9781560983118
   • Feldman, Larry (March 1995), The Mathematics Teacher, 88 (3): 243, JSTOR 27969287
   • Small, James S. (July 1995), Technology and Culture, 36 (3): 717–719, doi:10.2307/3107276, JSTOR 3107276, S2CID 108625526
   • Swarzlander, Earl (Fall 1995), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 17 (3): 82, doi:10.1109/mahc.1995.397068, S2CID 21629366
   • Mahoney, Michael S. (December 1995), Isis, 86 (4): 691–692, doi:10.1086/357396, JSTOR 235455
   • Babaian, Sharon (Winter 1996), The Public Historian, 18 (1): 132–134, doi:10.2307/3377903, JSTOR 3377903
6. "Amazon.co.uk Paul E. Ceruzzi Books". Amazon UK. Retrieved 2009-04-12.

External links

• Ceruzzi's The MIT Press Catalog
• ComputerHistory.org
• Paul E. Ceruzzi Collection on Konrad Zuse. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Collection contains published reports, articles, product literature, and other materials on Konrad Zuse.
• Paul Ceruzzi Papers, George Mason University