English translation of El misterio del Lago Negro, Siglo Cultural, 1986. English translation of El viaje de Tivo el Arriesgado, Siglo Cultural, 1986. The journey of Tivo the Dauntless, Writers Club Press, San José, CA, 2000.He was also given three Outstanding Technical Achievements Awards (1981, 1983, 1985) and one Technical Paper Award (1989) by IBM. He was granted the Lazarillo Award (1988) and La Brújula Award for Children and Young Adult Narrative (2012), besides having been finalist and included in honor lists several times. He is the author of over fifty books in the fields of computer science and popular science, as well as historic novels, science fiction, and young adult literature. He has published about two hundred technical papers in Spanish and English, as well as many articles on popular science in high diffusion newspapers and web blogs. He has been a professor at several universities: Complutense de Madrid, Politécnica de Madrid and (now) Autónoma de Madrid, where he was a full professor (currently an honorary professor) and director of the Escuela Politécnica Superior (2001–2004). He worked for 22 years at IBM (1972–1994), where he was Senior Technical Staff Member. He is a doctor of communications engineering and graduated in Computer Science. He is the son of the painter and sculptor Manuel Alfonseca Santana. Manuel Alfonseca (born 1946, Madrid) is a Spanish writer and university professor.
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