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)
 * Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 (2008).
 * Computing: A Concise History (2012)
 * GPS (2018)
 * GPS (2018)