Paul E. Ceruzzi (born 1949) is curator emeritus at the
Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, also called the Air and Space Museum, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States.
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Life
Ceruzzi received a BA from
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
in 1970 and received a Ph.D. from the
University of Kansas
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in 1981, both in
American studies.
Before joining the National Air and Space Museum, he was a Fulbright scholar
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Hamburg
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, Germany, and taught History of Technology at
Clemson University in
Clemson, South Carolina
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Ceruzzi is the author and co-author of several books on the history of
computing
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and
aerospace
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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)
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*''A History of Modern Computing'' (1998)
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*''Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005'' (2008).
*''Computing: A Concise History'' (2012)
*''GPS'' (2018)
References
External links
Ceruzzi's The MIT Press CatalogComputerHistory.orgPaul 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
Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-c ...
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Paul Ceruzzi Papers, George Mason University
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Living people
Smithsonian Institution people
1949 births
Yale University alumni
University of Kansas alumni
Clemson University faculty
History of computing