Paul E. Ceruzzi
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| fields = Aerospace electronics, computing, microelectronics, missile guidance & control{{Cite web
|title = AERONAUTICS AND SPACE HISTORY RESEARCH STAFF
|date = 18 June 2004
|publisher = Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum
|accessdate = 2009-04-12
|url = https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/paul-ceruzzi
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| workplaces = Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
| alma_mater = Yale University, University of Kansas
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Paul E. Ceruzzi (born 1949) is curator emeritus at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.{{Cite web
|title = Paul E. Ceruzzi - The MIT Press
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|url = http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=435
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|archivedate = 2008-12-21
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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{{Cite web
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in Hamburg, Germany, and taught History of Technology at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.{{Cite web
| title = 2004 MAPLD International Conference: Paul Ceruzzi Biography
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| url = http://klabs.org/mapld05/invited/cerruzi_bio.htm
}} 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)Reviews of Landmarks in Digital Computing:
- {{citation|last=Hammerton|first=James Cecil|journal=ACM Computing Reviews|title=Review|date=February 1994 |isbn=9781560983118 |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/182362}}
- {{citation|last=Feldman|first=Larry|date=March 1995|issue=3|journal=The Mathematics Teacher|jstor=27969287|page=243|title=none|volume=88}}
- {{citation|last=Small|first=James S.|date=July 1995|doi=10.2307/3107276|issue=3|journal=Technology and Culture|jstor=3107276|pages=717–719|title=none|volume=36|s2cid=108625526 }}
- {{citation|last=Swarzlander|first=Earl|date=Fall 1995|doi=10.1109/mahc.1995.397068|issue=3|journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing|page=82|title=none|volume=17|s2cid=21629366}}
- {{citation|last=Mahoney|first=Michael S.|authorlink=Michael Sean Mahoney|date=December 1995|doi=10.1086/357396|issue=4|journal=Isis|jstor=235455|pages=691–692|title=none|volume=86}}
- {{citation|last=Babaian|first=Sharon|date=Winter 1996|doi=10.2307/3377903|issue=1|journal=The Public Historian|jstor=3377903|pages=132–134|title=none|volume=18}}
- A History of Modern Computing (1998)
- {{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernc00ceru_0 |url-access=registration |title=A History of Modern Computing |publisher=MIT Press|first=Paul E |last=Ceruzzi |edition=2nd |isbn=978-0-262-53203-7 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernc00ceru_0/page/445 445] |date=May 2003}} {{Cite web
| title = Amazon.co.uk Paul E. Ceruzzi Books
| website = Amazon UK
| accessdate = 2009-04-12
| url = https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-uk&field-author=Paul%20E.%20Ceruzzi
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- 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
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081221225129/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=435 Ceruzzi's The MIT Press Catalog]
- [http://www.computerhistory.org/advisory/Paul,Ceruzzi/ ComputerHistory.org]
- [http://purl.umn.edu/60298 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.
- [https://scrc.gmu.edu/finding_aids/ceruzzi.html Paul Ceruzzi Papers, George Mason University]
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Category:Smithsonian Institution people
Category:Yale University alumni
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