Paul E Ceruzzi

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Residence United States		Name Paul Ceruzzi

Fields Aerospace electronics, computing, microelectronics, missile guidance & control Institutions Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum Alma mater Yale University, University of Kansas Education University of Kansas, Yale University Books A History of Modern Computin, Internet Alley, Computing: A Concise History, Beyond the Limits: Flight Ent, Time and Navigation: The Untol

Paul E. Ceruzzi (born 1949) is curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

Life

Ceruzzi received a BA from Yale University in 1970, and a PhD from the University of Kansas in 1981, both in American studies. Before joining the National Air and Space Museum, he was a Fulbright scholar in Hamburg, Germany, and taught History of Technology at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina. 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 (1994)

A History of Modern Computing (1998)

Ceruzzi, Paul E (May 2003). A History of Modern Computing (2nd ed.). MIT Press. p. 445. ISBN 978-0-262-53203-7.

Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 (2008).

Computing: A Concise History (2012)

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