Manuel Alfonseca

Manuel Alfonseca is a doctor in Electronics Engineering (1972) and Computer

Scientist (1976), both degrees obtained at the Universidad Politecnica of

Madrid. He teaches and does research at the Department of Computer Science of

the Universidad Autonoma of Madrid, where he was director of the Higher

Polytechnical School (2001-2004). Previously, he was Senior Technical Staff

Member at the IBM Madrid Scientific Center, where he worked from 1972 to 1994.

He is a member of the SCS (senior), the New York Academy of Sciences, the IEEE

Computer Society, the ACM, the British APL Association, the IBM Technical

Experts Council and the Spanish Association of Scientific Journalism. He has

published over 200 papers and books on computer languages, simulation, complex

systems, graphics, artificial intelligence, object-orientation and theoretical

computer science, as well as popular science and juvenile literature, with

different awards in all of these fields.