Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco

Bio

During the 1960s she began her undergraduate studies in Physics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. During this period she was a scholarship recipient from the Municipal Water and Sewage Department (DMAE) of Porto Alegre, and was one of the people selected to take a programming course when the DMAE was preparing to buy its first computer, thus having her first contact with the field of informatics.

In 1970 she graduated with a degree in Physics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and began working at UFRGS as a computer science professor.

In 1973 she participated in a course in Rio de Janeiro taught by Leonard Kleinrock, a pioneer of ARPANET, and began to dedicate herself to the area of ​​computer networks, initiating at the time the Southern Teleprocessing Network (RST) project, the first initiative to interconnect universities via computer networks in Brazil, which did not come to fruition due to costs.

In 1976 she obtained a master’s degree in Computer Science from UFRGS and in 1977 published the book Data Communication Networks by LTC publishing house, the first book on the subject in the country.

During the 1980s she participated in network research projects at UFRGS and in 1990 obtained a doctorate in Electrical Engineering/Digital Systems from the University of São Paulo.

She coordinated the project that resulted in the creation in 1993 of the Tchê Network, the computer network that integrates universities and research centers located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

From 2010 to 2013, she participated in the REMOA project (Citizen-Network for Environmental Monitoring based on Internet of Things Concepts), a project for the remote monitoring of patients with chronic diseases based on Internet of Things concepts to provide autonomous communication between monitoring devices, enabling the constant and non-intrusive acquisition of information about the monitored patient. She worked with the Postgraduate Program in Computer Science at UFRGS, mainly in the area of ​​Network Management and Security. With the Postgraduate Program in Informatics in Education, as a professor, researcher and advisor investigating she designed virtual laboratories in immersive worlds.

She held the position of Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for New Technologies in Education at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul from 2013 to 2016. From 2017 to 2020, she was the Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Informatics in Education.

Adapted from Wikipedia.