Paul E. Ceruzzi (born 1949) is curator emeritus at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in

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Life

Ceruzzi received a BA from

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in 1970 and received a Ph.D. from the

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in 1981, both in

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. Before joining the National Air and Space Museum, he was a Fulbright scholar in

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, Germany, and taught History of Technology at

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. Ceruzzi is the author and co-author of several books on the history of

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and

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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

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, 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)Reviews of ''Landmarks in Digital Computing'': * * * * * * *''A History of Modern Computing'' (1998) * *''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

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Paul Ceruzzi Papers, George Mason University
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