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Ceruzzi, Paul
National Air & Space Museum
Washington, District of Columbia
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| | Paul E. Ceruzzi is Curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. His work there includes research, writing, planning exhibits, collecting artifacts, and lecturing on the subjects of microelectronics, computing, and control as they apply to the practice of air and space flight.
Dr. Ceruzzi attended Yale University and the University of Kansas, from which received a Ph.D. in American Studies in 1981. His graduate studies included a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute for the History of Science in Hamburg, Germany. Before joining the staff of the National Air and Space Museum, he taught History of Technology at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.
He is the author or co-author of several books on the history of computing and related topics: Reckoners: The Prehistory of The Digital Computer (1983); Smithsonian Landmarks in the History of Digital Computing (1994, with Peggy Kidwell); A History of Modern Computing (1998); and Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age (1989). The latter book was published in connection with an exhibition of the same name at the National Air and Space Museum. He recently co-edited, with James Trefil and Harold Morowitz, the Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (Routledge, 2001), and he is currently working on a history of Systems Integration firms located in the Washington, D.C. region.
In addition to curating the "Beyond the Limits" exhibition, Dr. Ceruzzi worked on NASM exhibits on "The Global Positioning System: A New Constellation," "Space Race," and "How Things Fly." Elsewhere he served as a consultant on the "Information Age," at the National Museum of American History, and for the opening of the "Heinz-Nixdorf Forum," a museum devoted to the history of information technology located in Paderborn, Germany. |
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Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, coevolution, and the origins of personal computing
Bardini T., Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2000. 284 pp. Type: Book (9780804738712)
Douglas Engelbart is not among the famous pioneers of modern computing, but he has not been totally forgotten. Many know of him as the inventor of the mouse, which is true, although hardly indicative of the broad range of work that he ...
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Jan 1 2001 |
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Howard Aiken: portrait of a computer pioneer
Cohen I., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. 329 pp. Type: Book (9780262032629)
To those interested in the history of computing, the name Howard Aiken is familiar, yet little of a definitive nature has been written about him--until now. These two volumes, well-written and handsomely produced by the MIT Pr...
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Oct 1 1999 |
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Makin’ numbers: Howard Aiken and the computer
Cohen I., Welch G. (ed), Campbell R. (ed) MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. Type: Divisible Book
To those interested in the history of computing, the name Howard Aiken is familiar, yet little of a definitive nature has been written about him--until now. These two volumes, well-written and handsomely produced by the MIT Pr...
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Oct 1 1999 |
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LEO: the first business computer
Bird P., Hasler Publishing Ltd., Workingham, UK, 1994. Type: Book (9780952165101)
Most surveys of the history of computing mark the beginning of the commercial computer age with the delivery of the first UNIVAC in 1951. The better ones note the first delivery of a UNIVAC to a commercial, not government, customer (Ge...
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Feb 1 1996 |
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A quarter century of UNIX
Salus P., ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., New York, NY, 1994. Type: Book (9780201547771)
It used to be a surprise when one learned how old and venerable UNIX is. No more: UNIX seems to have found its place--not as prominent as its advocates hoped, but a secure place nonetheless--in a desktop environment d...
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Jan 1 1996 |
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The computer in the United States
Cortada J. (ed), M. E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk, NY, 1993. Type: Book (9781563242359)
Cortada has added to his already substantial body of historical literature a fresh look at what he calls the golden age of the history of computing: the 30-year period when computing machinery settled around a paradigm of electronic di...
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Aug 1 1994 |
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The myth of the awesome thinking machine
Martin C. Communications of the ACM 36(4): 120-133, 1993. Type: Article
From time to time the Communications of the ACM publishes papers that are primarily historical. There is nothing wrong with that; indeed, a historical perspective is often just what is needed to supply context to the technical ...
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Apr 1 1994 |
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Gates
Manes S., Andrews P., Doubleday, New York, NY, 1993. Type: Book (9780385420754)
The shelf of books about the life and career of Bill Gates keeps growing. The reasons for the fascination with Gates and Microsoft are not hard to discern--they are the same reasons that for many years there was a torrent of b...
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Jan 1 1994 |
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Hard drive
Wallace J., Erickson J., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1992. Type: Book (9780471568865)
The authors of this book are Seattle journalists who have covered the spectacular rise of Microsoft in the past few years. It is based mainly on an extensive set of interviews with most of the major players, although neither Microsoft ...
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Mar 1 1993 |
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A computer perspective: background to the computer age (new ed.)
Eames C., Eames R., Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, 1990. Type: Book (9780674156265)
The exhibition on the history of computing catalogued in the first edition of this book was on display at IBM’s World Trade Center in New York from February 1971 through the middle of 1975. This edition does not change the fo...
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Jul 1 1991 |
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