Paul E. Ceruzzi
Alma mater	Yale University, University of Kansas
Scientific career
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. ^[6]
• 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 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