Liane Tarouco
termISP & telecomops culture
The researcher who built the Rede Sul de Teleprocessamento, the first initiative to connect Brazilian universities, wrote the first book on computer networks published in Brazil, and contributed to the country's first internet backbone. Inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2021.
Her inclusion corrects a familiar distortion. Founding histories are usually told through the people who negotiated with ministries; Tarouco's work was the teaching and the regional plumbing - the textbook a generation learned from and the southern network that proved inter-university connection was practical before there was a national one. She spent her career at UFRGS, and the education side of her contribution is why the field in Brazil had trained people ready when the backbone arrived.
Also known as: rede sul de teleprocessamento, ufrgs, primeiro livro redes brasil