Ordinarily Extraordinary - Conversations with women in STEM

12. Cristine Korowajczuk - Computer Engineer, Wireless Industry, Technical Education, Training, and life long learner

June 24, 2020 Kathy Nelson Episode 12
Ordinarily Extraordinary - Conversations with women in STEM
12. Cristine Korowajczuk - Computer Engineer, Wireless Industry, Technical Education, Training, and life long learner
Show Notes

Cristine works in technical sales and support in the wireless industry. She has spent much of her career doing technical education, training, and documentation. She capitalizes on her insatiable curiosity and need to thoroughly understand things both in her career as an educator and in her role as a mom. Cristine also shares her childhood and educational experience growing up in Brazil.

Episode Notes
Music used in the podcast: Higher Up, Silverman Sound Studio

Acronyms and Definitions
Computer Engineering
- the branch of engineering that integrates electronic engineering with computer sciences. Computer engineers design and develop computer systems and other technological devices.

Russian School of Mathematics - an after school program that provides mathematics education for children attending K–12 of public and private schools. The school provides children the opportunity to advance in mathematics beyond the traditional school curriculum. The founder of RSM is Inessa Rifkin and co-founder is Irene Khavinson (wikipedia)

GSM - Global System for Mobile Communications - a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets. (wikipedia)

GPRS - General Packet Radio Service - a packet oriented mobile data standard on the 2G and 3G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications(GSM). (wikipedia)

3GPP - The 3rd Generation Partnership Project - unites [Seven] telecommunications standard development organizations (ARIB, ATIS, CCSA, ETSI, TSDSI, TTA, TTC), known as “Organizational Partners” and provides their members with a stable environment to produce the Reports and Specifications that define 3GPP technologies. (www.3gpp.org)

Fact Check
When did wireless come to Brazil?
The history of mobile telephony in Brazil began on 30 December 1990, when the Cellular Mobile System began operating in the city of Rio de Janeiro, with a capacity for 10,000 terminals. According to Anatel (the national telecommunications agency), there were 667 devices in the country. The number of devices rose to 6,700 in the next year, to 30,000 in 1992. In November 2007 3G services were launched, and increased rapidly to almost 90% of the population in 2012 and the agreements signed as part of the auction specify a 3G coverage obligation of 100% of population by 2019. (wikipedia)

Claude Shannon - (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory". Shannon is noted for having founded information theory with a landmark paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", that he published in 194