Paul E. Ceruzzi
American historian of computing and aerospace
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paul E. Ceruzzi 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.
Paul E. Ceruzzi's Published Works
Published Works
- A History of Modern Computing (1998) (641)
- The Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (2001) (260)
- When Computers Were Human (1991) (143)
- Computing: A Concise History (2012) (72)
- Moore's Law and Technological Determinism: Reflections on the History of Technology (2005) (56)
- A History of Modern Computing (2. ed.) (2003) (53)
- Reckoners: The Prehistory of the Digital Computer, from Relays to the Stored Program Concept, 1935-1945 (1983) (52)
- The Internet and American Business (2010) (45)
- Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945--2005 (2008) (34)
- Crossing the Divide: Architectural Issues and the Emergence of the Stored Program Computer, 1935-1955 (1997) (21)
- Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945 (2010) (21)
- The Early Computers of Konrad Zuse, 1935 to 1945 (1981) (21)
- From scientific instrument to everyday appliance: The emergence of personal computers, 1970–77 (1996) (19)
- Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age (1989) (17)
- Electronics Technology and Computer Science, 1940-1975: A Coevolution (1988) (15)
- Landmarks in digital computing (1994) (12)
- Tysons corner, Virginia (2000) (9)
- A New History of Modern Computing (2021) (9)
- The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Software as a Service: Historical Perspectives on the Computer Utility and Software for Lease on a Network (2008) (8)
- The Internet before Commercialization (2008) (8)
- Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History by Peggy A. Kidwell, Paul E. Ceruzzi (1995) (8)
- Protocols for Profit: Web and E-mail Technologies as Product and Infrastructure (2008) (8)
- File Sharing and the Music Industry (2008) (7)
- Small Ideas, Big Ideas, Bad Ideas, Good Ideas: “Get Big Fast” and Dot-Com Venture Creation (2008) (7)
- Innovation and the Evolution of Market Structure for Internet Access in the United States (2008) (6)
- Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956. (1994) (6)
- The Web's Missing Links: Search Engines and Portals (2008) (5)
- Discovering a Role Online: Brick-and-Mortar Retailers and the Internet (2008) (5)
- Eros Unbound: Pornography and the Internet (2008) (5)
- The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise (review) (2011) (5)
- Zuse computers (2003) (4)
- A View from 20 Years as a Historian of Computing (2001) (4)
- The Digital Age (2008) (4)
- Guest Editors' Introduction: PC Software--Spreadsheets for Everyone (2007) (4)
- “Nothing new since von Neumann”: a historian looks at computer architecture, 1945–1995 (2000) (4)
- Electronic calculators (1990) (3)
- Are Historians Failing to Tell the Real Story about the History of Computing? (2014) (3)
- The Materiality of the Internet (2006) (3)
- “Ready or not, computers are coming to the people”: Inventing the PC (2010) (3)
- Relay calculators (1990) (3)
- [Book Review:] X-15:the World s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots who Ushered in the Space Age, by John Anderson and Richard Passman (2015) (3)
- Communities and Specialized Information Businesses (2008) (2)
- From Batch to Interactive: The Evolution of Computing Systems, 1957-1969 (1994) (2)
- Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age (review) (2006) (2)
- New Wine in Old and New Bottles: Patterns and Effects of the Internet on Companies (2008) (2)
- “A Large Canvas”: Melvin Kranzberg and Carroll W. Pursell Jr., eds., Technology in Western Civilization (2009) (2)
- A history of modern computing / Paul E. Ceruzzi (2003) (2)
- Generations, computer (2003) (1)
- Resistance Is Futile? Reluctant and Selective Users of the Internet (2008) (1)
- Think piece datamation, annals, slashdot, and tomorrow's history (2002) (1)
- To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology (review) (2004) (1)
- Conspiracy or Consumer Choice? (2009) (1)
- Guest Editors' Introduction: PC Software--Word Processing for Everyone (2006) (1)
- A War on Two Fronts: The U.S. Justice Department, Open Source, and Microsoft, 1995-2002 (2002) (1)
- Computing: key developments. (1981) (1)
- Internet Challenges for Nonmedia Industries, Firms, and Workers: Travel Agencies, Realtors, Mortgage Brokers, Personal Computer Manufacturers, and Information Technology Services Professionals (2008) (1)
- Lessons Learned, Future Opportunities (2008) (1)
- The Other Side of Moore’s Law: The Apollo Guidance Computer, the Integrated Circuit, and the Microelectronics Revolution, 1962–1975 (2018) (1)
- When Dreams Become Real (2010) (1)
- Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics. By David A. Mindell. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xvi, 439 pp. $46.00, isbn 0-8018-6895-5.) (2004) (1)
- The Historical Context (2013) (0)
- Oral history interview with Robert E. Weissman (2002) (0)
- 7 EUROPEAN, RUSSIAN, AND OTHER SATELLITE SYSTEMS (2018) (0)
- Industry Transformation and Selective Adoption (2008) (0)
- Systems, experts, and computers: the systems approach in management and engineering, world war ii and after [Review] (2001) (0)
- Aerospace Needs, Microelectronics, and the Quest for Reliability: 1962–1975 [Scanning Our Past] (2017) (0)
- Moore’s Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary by Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones (review) (2016) (0)
- An Approach to Invention: Numerical Control . Making a New Technology. J. Francis Reintjes. Oxford University Press, New York, 1991. xvi, 223 pp., illus. $39.95. Oxford Series on Advanced Manufacturing, 9. (1991) (0)
- Satellite Navigation and the Military-Civilian Dilemma: The Geopolitics of GPS and Its Rivals (2020) (0)
- Patrice Flichy.The Internet Imaginaire. Translated by, Liz Carey‐Libbrecht. 240 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2007. $29.95 (cloth). (2009) (0)
- This Is Only a Test: How Washington, D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War (review) (2007) (0)
- Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science (2017) (0)
- Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware by Paul Atkinson (review) (2015) (0)
- Deep Space Navigation: the Apollo VIII Story (2010) (0)
- 3 THE ORIGINS OF SATELLITE NAVIGATION (2018) (0)
- The Internet and the World Wide Web (2012) (0)
- Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986 (review) (1998) (0)
- Origins of Cyberspace: A Library History of Computing, Networking, And Telecommunications [Book Review] (2003) (0)
- Slow Train through the 20th Century (1975) (0)
- From Mainframes to Smartphones: A History of the International Computer Industry. ByMartin Campbell-Kelly andDaniel D. Garcia-Swartz. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2015. vi + 240 pp. Figures, tables, bibliography, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-674-72906-3. (2015) (0)
- Computers Take Flight: A History of NASA's Pioneering Digital Fly-by-Wire Project James B. Tomayko (2000) (0)
- Roberto Busa, S.J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing: The Priest and the Punched Cards, written by Steven E. Jones (2017) (0)
- Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry by Jeffrey R. Yost (review) (2020) (0)
- Alan Turing and the theoretical foundation of the information age (2017) (0)
- Calvin Mooers, Zatocoding, and Early Research on Information Retrieval (2019) (0)
- Book Review:Architects of the Information Society: Thirty-Five Years of the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT Simson L. Garfinkel (2000) (0)
- Newly Created or Amplified Problems (2008) (0)
- Alan Turing and the theoretical foundation of the information age (2017) (0)
- [Book Review:] Who Owns America's Past? The Smithsonian and the Problem of History, by Robert C. Post (2014) (0)
- Book Review: Processing the Information (1987) (0)
- The Chip and Silicon Valley (2012) (0)
- Book Review:Memories That Shaped an Industry: Decisions Leading to IBM System/360 Emerson W. Pugh (1985) (0)
- Rosalind Williams.Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change. xv+252 pp., index. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. $27.95 (cloth). (2003) (0)
- Review of: [Book Review:] Digital State: The Story of Minnesota's Computing Industry, by Thomas J. Misa (2014) (0)
- How the compleat idiot became the technogeek (2002) (0)
- Reception at the Living Computer Museum, Seattle (2013) (0)
- Computer pioneers: the first electronic computer. (1988) (0)
- New Technology: Old and New Business Uses (2008) (0)
- Non-standard models of innovation (1998) (0)
- Book Review:Electronic Genie: The Tangled History of Silicon Frederick Seitz, Norman G. Einspruch (1999) (0)
- Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation. Wallace J. EckertCalculating Machines: Recent and Prospective Developments and Their Impact on Mathematical Physics and Calculating Instruments and Machines. Douglas R. Hartree (1986) (0)
- Internet Technologies Seeking a Business Model (2008) (0)
- Bell labs relay computers (2003) (0)
- An approach to invention. (1991) (0)
- Professor Brian Randell and the History of Computing (2011) (0)
- Sidling to success [Books] (2000) (0)
- PC software: Word processing for everyone (2006) (0)
- The First Computers, 1935–1945 (2012) (0)
- Digital computers, history of (2003) (0)
- Y2K Old Hat in New Technology (1999) (0)
- In this issue (2005) (0)
- Philadelphia & the Birth of the Computer Age (2015) (0)
- Commerce in the Internet World (2008) (0)
- Decryption day by day. (1994) (0)
- The Stored Program Principle (2012) (0)
- 2 TWENTIETH-CENTURY NAVIGATING (2018) (0)
- Internet alley: High technology in Northern Virigina 1957 - 2000 (2004) (0)
- Book Review:Creating the Computer: Government, Industry, and High Technology Kenneth Flamm (1989) (0)
- Internet Challenges for Media Businesses (2008) (0)
- Strategic Computing: DARPA and the Quest for Machine Intelligence, 1983-1993 (review) (2003) (0)
- Market and Agora: Community Building by Internet (2008) (0)
- A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computer Applications, 1950–1990 by James W. Cortada (1997) (0)
- The Internet and American Business: History of Computing (2008) (0)
- Book notes (1999) (0)
- In This Issue (2010) (0)
- Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie (review) (2003) (0)
- Book notes (2003) (0)
- Inventing the Computer [Scanning Our Past] (2013) (0)
- Book Review:The Early British Conferences M. R. Williams, Martin Campbell-Kelly (1991) (0)
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