Paul E Ceruzzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 126891 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul E Ceruzzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul E |
| FAMILY NAME | Ceruzzi |
| SIGNATURE | CERUZZI P E |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Air and Space Museum |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3308-6651 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry by Jeffrey R. Yost
Reviewed by: Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry by Jeffrey R. Yost Paul Ceruzzi (bio) Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry. By Jeffrey R. Yost. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. Pp. x + 376. $37. Jeffrey R. Yost, associate director of the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, makes a valuable contribution to the literature on the history of information technology since the dawn of …
Roberto Busa, S.J., and the Emergence of Humanities Computing: The Priest and the Punched Cards, written by Steven E. Jones
Roberto Busa (1913Busa ( -2011) ) was a Jesuit scholar who spent much of his adult life leading a project to compile a concordance of the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, initially using punched cards and tabulating equipment, later on electronic computers supplied by the ibm Corporation.The 56-volume Index Thomisticus was the culmination of that effort; it is now available on the web as a subset of the Corpus Thomisticum, at http://www.corpusthomist…
Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary by Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones
Reviewed by: Moore’s Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary by Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones Paul E. Ceruzzi (bio) Moore’s Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary. By Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones. New York: Basic Books, 2015. Pp. xxvii+ 530. $35. The appearance of this book in 2015 was part of a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of a brief note…
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise (review)
Reviewed by: The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise Paul Ceruzzi (bio) The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise. By Nathan Ensmenger. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. x+320. $30. This book is a recent addition to the MIT Press series in the History of Computing, which, since its inauguration in the mid-1980s, now has nearly twenty-five t…
Ready or not, computers are coming to the people: Inventing the PC
Journal Article "Ready or not, computers are coming to the people": Inventing the PC Get access Paul E. Ceruzzi Paul E. Ceruzzi Paul E. Ceruzzi is Curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. He is the author or co-author of several books on the history of computing and aerospace technology: Reckoners: The Prehistory of The Digital Computer (1983); Beyond the Limits: Flight E…
When Dreams Become Real
In the summer of 1964, engineers at the Digital Equipment Corporation, a computer company located in an old textile mill in Maynard, Massachusetts, gathered around a new computer they had developed for a photograph. The computer was called a "PDP-6," and it represented a new direction for the small company. The PDP-6 and its successors were among the most significant computers ever designed. The computers were designed to be used in a so-called "…
A Large Canvas”: Melvin Kranzberg and Carroll W. Pursell Jr., eds., Technology in Western Civilization
The two-volume survey of the history of technology, Technology in Western Civilization , edited by Melvin Kranzberg and Carroll W. Pursell Jr., is reviewed 42 years after its publication by Oxford University Press. The reviewer concludes that the book helped establish the academic field of the history of technology, along with the founding of the Society for the History of Technology and its journal, Technology and Culture , in 1958–1959. Melvin …
This Is Only a Test: How Washington, D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War (review)
Reviewed by: This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War Paul E. Ceruzzi (bio) This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War. By David F. Krugler . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xii+248. $35. In the United States during the late 1940s a number of factors converged to raise an awareness of civil defense to a level not seen in earlier years. Americans were well aware of specific events of the war …
Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age (review)
Reviewed by: Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age Paul Ceruzzi (bio) Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age. By James Essinger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xi+302. $26. One ought to be suspicious of books that suggest that history is a linear flow of events, each one logically following the one before it, until we arrive at the "information age" we are now enjoyi…
Moore's Law and Technological Determinism: Reflections on the History of Technology
Just over a year ago, the arrival in my mailbox of a book I had agreed to review triggered some thoughts about technology I had been meaning to articulate. The book was Ross Bassett's To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology (Baltimore, 2002).1 In it, Bassett describes the development of metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) technology, which enabled semiconductor firms to place more and more transistors on …
To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology (review)
Reviewed by: To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology Paul E. Ceruzzi (bio) To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology. By Ross Knox Bassett. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+421. $44.95. A glance at recent nonfiction best-seller lists reveals a number of popular histories of technology, which follow the conceit that some relatively obs…
Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie (review)
Driving Visions explores and analyses a carefully defined genre of films, the "road movie," which David Laderman characterizes as a distinctly American invention, although he includes a few foreign productions as well. As I understand Laderman's criteria, a true road movie is one in which the vehicle—typically either a car or motorcycle, although it can be a truck—is in some way a character in the film. That is expressed primarily by the film's a…
Electronic Genie: The Tangled History of Silicon . Frederick Seitz , Norman G. Einspruch
Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986 (review)
Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986
From the Publisher: In the explosively changing world of computer technology, massive funding and large-scale enterprise have become givens, and probably no single actor has had a greater influence on computer research and development than the U.S. Department of Defense. R&D programs of the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) transformed computing from a cumbersome enterprise based on batch processing to the instantly inter…
The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards behind the Supercomputer
Journal Article The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards behind the Supercomputer. By Charles J. Murray. (New York: Wiley, 1997. viii, 232 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-471-04885-2.) Get access Paul Ceruzzi Paul Ceruzzi National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 731–732, https://doi.org…
A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computer Applications, 1950-1990
Preface Introduction: Issues in the History of Computer Applications Applications, 1950-1965 Applications, 1966-1990 Author Index Subject Index
From scientific instrument to everyday appliance: The emergence of personal computers, 1970–77
In a technology whose history seems always to be characterized by a series of “revolutions,” the invention of the personal computer in the mid‐1970s seems the greatest of all. This paper examines to what extent the PC was “merely” a result of advances in semiconductor technology, or whether it was the result of a conscious effort by actors to effect a social transformation of computing. It looks first from the top down, as a small group of people…
Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History
Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956
Journal Article Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865–1956. By James W. Cortada. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. xxii, 344 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-691-04807-X.) Get access Paul E. Ceruzzi Paul E. Ceruzzi Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pa…
The Early British Conferences . M. R. Williams , Martin Campbell-Kelly
Creating the Computer: Government, Industry, and High Technology. Kenneth Flamm
Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation . Wallace J. Eckert Calculating Machines: Recent and Prospective Developments and Their Impact on Mathematical Physics and Calculating Instruments and Ma…
Memories That Shaped an Industry: Decisions Leading to IBM System/360 . Emerson W. Pugh
Reckoners: The Prehistory of the Digital Computer, from Relays to the Stored Program Concept, 1935-1945
Moore's Law and Technological Determinism: Reflections on the History of Technology
Just over a year ago, the arrival in my mailbox of a book I had agreed to review triggered some thoughts about technology I had been meaning to articulate. The book was Ross Bassett's To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology (Baltimore, 2002).1 In it, Bassett describes the development of metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) technology, which enabled semiconductor firms to place more and more transistors on …
History of Programming Languages
Memories That Shaped an Industry: Decisions Leading to IBM System/360 . Emerson W. Pugh
Reckoners: The Prehistory of the Digital Computer, from Relays to the Stored Program Concept, 1935-1945
Turing's Man: Western Culture in the Computer Age
Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation . Wallace J. Eckert Calculating Machines: Recent and Prospective Developments and Their Impact on Mathematical Physics and Calculating Instruments and Ma…
Creating the Computer: Government, Industry, and High Technology. Kenneth Flamm
The Early British Conferences . M. R. Williams , Martin Campbell-Kelly
Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865-1956
Journal Article Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865–1956. By James W. Cortada. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. xxii, 344 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-691-04807-X.) Get access Paul E. Ceruzzi Paul E. Ceruzzi Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4, March 1994, Pa…
Landmarks in Digital Computing: A Smithsonian Pictorial History
From scientific instrument to everyday appliance: The emergence of personal computers, 1970–77
In a technology whose history seems always to be characterized by a series of “revolutions,” the invention of the personal computer in the mid‐1970s seems the greatest of all. This paper examines to what extent the PC was “merely” a result of advances in semiconductor technology, or whether it was the result of a conscious effort by actors to effect a social transformation of computing. It looks first from the top down, as a small group of people…
The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards behind the Supercomputer
Journal Article The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards behind the Supercomputer. By Charles J. Murray. (New York: Wiley, 1997. viii, 232 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-471-04885-2.) Get access Paul Ceruzzi Paul Ceruzzi National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 2, September 1997, Pages 731–732, https://doi.org…
A Bibliographic Guide to the History of Computer Applications, 1950-1990
Preface Introduction: Issues in the History of Computer Applications Applications, 1950-1965 Applications, 1966-1990 Author Index Subject Index
Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986 (review)
Transforming Computer Technology: Information Processing for the Pentagon, 1962-1986
From the Publisher: In the explosively changing world of computer technology, massive funding and large-scale enterprise have become givens, and probably no single actor has had a greater influence on computer research and development than the U.S. Department of Defense. R&D programs of the Pentagon's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) transformed computing from a cumbersome enterprise based on batch processing to the instantly inter…
Electronic Genie: The Tangled History of Silicon . Frederick Seitz , Norman G. Einspruch
Driving Visions: Exploring the Road Movie (review)
Driving Visions explores and analyses a carefully defined genre of films, the "road movie," which David Laderman characterizes as a distinctly American invention, although he includes a few foreign productions as well. As I understand Laderman's criteria, a true road movie is one in which the vehicle—typically either a car or motorcycle, although it can be a truck—is in some way a character in the film. That is expressed primarily by the film's a…
To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology (review)
Reviewed by: To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology Paul E. Ceruzzi (bio) To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-Up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology. By Ross Knox Bassett. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+421. $44.95. A glance at recent nonfiction best-seller lists reveals a number of popular histories of technology, which follow the conceit that some relatively obs…
Moore's Law and Technological Determinism: Reflections on the History of Technology
Just over a year ago, the arrival in my mailbox of a book I had agreed to review triggered some thoughts about technology I had been meaning to articulate. The book was Ross Bassett's To the Digital Age: Research Labs, Start-up Companies, and the Rise of MOS Technology (Baltimore, 2002).1 In it, Bassett describes the development of metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) technology, which enabled semiconductor firms to place more and more transistors on …
Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age (review)
Reviewed by: Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age Paul Ceruzzi (bio) Jacquard's Web: How a Hand-Loom Led to the Birth of the Information Age. By James Essinger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xi+302. $26. One ought to be suspicious of books that suggest that history is a linear flow of events, each one logically following the one before it, until we arrive at the "information age" we are now enjoyi…
This Is Only a Test: How Washington, D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War (review)
Reviewed by: This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War Paul E. Ceruzzi (bio) This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War. By David F. Krugler . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. xii+248. $35. In the United States during the late 1940s a number of factors converged to raise an awareness of civil defense to a level not seen in earlier years. Americans were well aware of specific events of the war …
A Large Canvas”: Melvin Kranzberg and Carroll W. Pursell Jr., eds., Technology in Western Civilization
The two-volume survey of the history of technology, Technology in Western Civilization , edited by Melvin Kranzberg and Carroll W. Pursell Jr., is reviewed 42 years after its publication by Oxford University Press. The reviewer concludes that the book helped establish the academic field of the history of technology, along with the founding of the Society for the History of Technology and its journal, Technology and Culture , in 1958–1959. Melvin …
Ready or not, computers are coming to the people: Inventing the PC
Journal Article "Ready or not, computers are coming to the people": Inventing the PC Get access Paul E. Ceruzzi Paul E. Ceruzzi Paul E. Ceruzzi is Curator of Aerospace Electronics and Computing at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. He is the author or co-author of several books on the history of computing and aerospace technology: Reckoners: The Prehistory of The Digital Computer (1983); Beyond the Limits: Flight E…
When Dreams Become Real
In the summer of 1964, engineers at the Digital Equipment Corporation, a computer company located in an old textile mill in Maynard, Massachusetts, gathered around a new computer they had developed for a photograph. The computer was called a "PDP-6," and it represented a new direction for the small company. The PDP-6 and its successors were among the most significant computers ever designed. The computers were designed to be used in a so-called "…
The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise (review)
Reviewed by: The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise Paul Ceruzzi (bio) The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise. By Nathan Ensmenger. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2010. Pp. x+320. $30. This book is a recent addition to the MIT Press series in the History of Computing, which, since its inauguration in the mid-1980s, now has nearly twenty-five t…
Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary by Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones
Reviewed by: Moore’s Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary by Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones Paul E. Ceruzzi (bio) Moore’s Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley’s Quiet Revolutionary. By Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones. New York: Basic Books, 2015. Pp. xxvii+ 530. $35. The appearance of this book in 2015 was part of a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of a brief note…
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