Browsing by Author "Ceruzzi, Paul"

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    Oral History Interview with Paul Ceruzzi
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2020-11-24) Ceruzzi, Paul
    Ceruzzi discusses his upbringing, education at Yale and Kansas, and work at Texas Tech, Clemson, and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. Topics include his books on Aiken, Stibitz, and Zuse; on flight in the computing era; and on Tyson’s Corner; as well as the several editions of his general history of computing. He discusses the computer history community – individuals, Annals of the History of Computing, and the Society for History of Technology special interest group on computer history. This interview is part of a collection of interviews on the early history of the history of computing.
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    Oral history interview with Robert E. Weissman
    (Charles Babbage Institute, 2002-05-03) Weissman, Robert E., 1940-; Ceruzzi, Paul
    Robert Weissman attended the University of Connecticut and received his Bachelor’s degree from Babson College. After various positions unrelated to the computer business, he was appointed CEO of National CSS during the 1970s when the company founders brought him in as a professional business manager. He describes how National CSS was founded and evolved from a general-purpose timesharing company using VP/CSS to a specialty processing services firm using RAMIS and Nomad to produce and run departmental applications. After selling National CSS to Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), he remained with D&B and later, as its CEO, redirected its strategy to being database focused rather than data processing oriented. He was Chairman of ADAPSO and describes its structure and values. This oral history was sponsored by the Software History Center in conjunction with the Center's ADAPSO reunion (3 May 2002).