Paul E. Ceruzzi
# Paul E. Ceruzzi

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 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 (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)
* Ceruzzi, Paul E (May 2003). A History of Modern Computing (2nd ed.). MIT Press. pp. 445. ISBN 978-0-262-53203-7.
* Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 (2008).
* Computing: A Concise History (2012)
* GPS (2018)
