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Adolfo Plasencia

Adolfo Plasencia Diago (Bugarra, 1960) is a Spanish researcher and journalist, specialized in science and technology.

Alongside Douglas Morgenstern, in Fall 2000 they created ''MITUPV Exchange'', an initiative between the MIT and UPV Universities, with the objective of creating a pioneering educational social network platform, over 12 years, and in which a total of 4,600 students from MIT and the UPV in Spain participated approximately half from MIT and the same number from the UPV in Spain.

From 1990 to 1995, he has also been a postgraduate professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in the Master of Graphic Arts; and From 1995 to 2005, in the Master of Multimedia Applications for the Internet. He has also taught Computer Systems for Ubiquitous Learning in the Official Master's Degree in Online Communication and Education at the National University of Distance Education (UNED) in Spain.

In 2007, he was founder and director of the International Meeting of Entrepreneurs, Investors and Business Schools Powerful Ideas Summit.

In 2017 he published ''Is the Universe a hologram?,'' a conversation book with several personalities, and with a prologue by Tim O’Reilly. In 2021, the University of Valencia published an improved version in Spanish.

He has done science divulgation by directing the tv program Tecnópolis, and as a collaborator in the radio program Abierto a Mediodía; He is also a contributor to print media such as El Mundo, El País, El Español. Provided by Wikipedia