Paul E. Ceruzzi

Noted IT historian, author, and curator, Ceruzzi has served as Curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He received a BA from Yale University in 1970 and a PhD 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 or co-author of several books on the history of computing and aerospace technology, such as 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 (1994), and A History of Modern Computing (1998). He also published a book that examines the emergence of private contractors serving the U.S. Defense Department in the Washington, D.C. region: Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945–2005 (2008).

Dr. Ceruzzi 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.