Paul E. Ceruzzi


Paul E. Ceruzzi is curator emeritus at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.

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. 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
  • Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age
  • Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History
  • A History of Modern Computing
  • Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005.
  • Computing: A Concise History
  • GPS
  • ''A New History of Modern Computing''