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Paul E. Ceruzzi

b. 1949

American historian of computing and aerospace

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Born 1949. Paul E. Ceruzzi is an American scientist.

Paul E. Ceruzzi (born 1949) 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 PhD from the University of Kansas in 1981, both in American studies. 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 (with Peggy A. Kidwell, 1994) A History of Modern Computing (1998)

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)

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1949
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Yale University, University of Kansas, Smithsonian Institution
Employers
Clemson University, Smithsonian Institution
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Paul Ceruzzi

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American historian of computing and aerospace

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Paul E. Ceruzzi was born in 1949.

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Paul E. Ceruzzi is a scientist.

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