Alda Campos

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Alda Surerus Campos (or Alda Campos) was a pioneer in the history of the Brazilian computing press, having been founder and editor of the first Brazilian magazine of microcomputing, Micro Sistemas (MS).

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Having graduated in Journalism in 1980, by the ECO (School of Communications) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), was charged in 1981 for her father, the entrepreneur Aldenor Campos, to create a magazine to promote a microcomputing culture, then inexistent, in Brazil.

Initially, having only knowledge of the BASIC language, Alda was always surrounded by professionals of the computing area, some of which would have important participation in the future development of the "Micro Sistemas", as Renato Degiovani.

At the end of 1986, she received an invitation to take up the Technical Editorship of the periodical "Data News" and resigned from "MS". After this, she begans her studies in COBOL, and got a master's degree in computer systems analysis. In 2002 (date of her testimony to MCI), she was dwelling with her family at Freiburg, in Germany, developing applications in ASP, Java and Javascript.