Biography:Paul E. Ceruzzi
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| Alma mater | Yale University, University of Kansas |
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| Fields | Aerospace electronics, computing, microelectronics, missile guidance & control[1] |
| Institutions | Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum |
Paul E. Ceruzzi (born 1949) is curator emeritus at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.[2]
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.[1] Before joining the National Air and Space Museum, he was a Fulbright scholar[3] in Hamburg, Germany, and taught History of Technology at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.[4] 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)[5]
- A History of Modern Computing (1998)
- Ceruzzi, Paul E (May 2003). A History of Modern Computing (2nd ed.). MIT Press. pp. 445. ISBN 978-0-262-53203-7. https://archive.org/details/historyofmodernc00ceru_0. [6]
- 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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "AERONAUTICS AND SPACE HISTORY RESEARCH STAFF". Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum. 18 June 2004. https://airandspace.si.edu/people/staff/paul-ceruzzi. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
- ↑ "Paul E. Ceruzzi - The MIT Press". Archived from the original on 2008-12-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20081221225129/http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=435. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ↑ "Paul Ceruzzi: Links". Archived from the original on 2009-05-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20090529230420/http://www.alteich.com/links/ceruzzi.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
- ↑ "2004 MAPLD International Conference: Paul Ceruzzi Biography". http://klabs.org/mapld05/invited/cerruzi_bio.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
- ↑ Reviews of Landmarks in Digital Computing:
- Hammerton, James Cecil (February 1994), "Review", ACM Computing Reviews, ISBN 9781560983118, https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/182362
- Feldman, Larry (March 1995), "none", The Mathematics Teacher 88 (3): 243
- Small, James S. (July 1995), "none", Technology and Culture 36 (3): 717–719, doi:10.2307/3107276
- Swarzlander, Earl (Fall 1995), "none", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 17 (3): 82, doi:10.1109/mahc.1995.397068
- Mahoney, Michael S. (December 1995), "none", Isis 86 (4): 691–692, doi:10.1086/357396
- Babaian, Sharon (Winter 1996), "none", The Public Historian 18 (1): 132–134, doi:10.2307/3377903
- ↑ "Amazon.co.uk Paul E. Ceruzzi Books". https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-uk&field-author=Paul%20E.%20Ceruzzi. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
External links
- Ceruzzi's The MIT Press Catalog
- ComputerHistory.org
- 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.
- Paul Ceruzzi Papers, George Mason University
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