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Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

How did that happen? I am 60.

Happy Birthday to me. I am old(er), turning 60, so some reflections are in order. Looking forward to getting discounts at movie theaters —…

5 min readMay 6, 2022

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Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

The Latest Power Outage in Puerto Rico

A few days ago I went to Puerto Rico and landed just when the island lost power. For ~40 hours, I was with my family living among “the…

5 min readApr 20, 2022

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Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

What’s on the menu? Mystery Meat.

Back in the early days of the web, web designers played with many of the unique features of HTML and CSS. Many of those features allowed…

6 min readMar 24, 2021

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Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

My Experience with Specification Grading

The academic semester of Spring 2020 finished with most universities moving to online education as a response to the pandemic. During the…

10 min readJan 4, 2021

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Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

The Room Where it Happens

Among the many conversations about inclusion in society and about increasing participation from groups that are underrepresented, I often…

9 min readDec 20, 2020

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Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

How I Prepared for a Job Interview

Grad students and other professionals often ask me “how did you prepare for a job interview?” In this write up, I will detail how I…

7 min readDec 18, 2020

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Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

What Can CS Departments do? Create More Student Organizations

Couple of weeks ago I wrote about what CS departments could do to address racial inequities. I promised I would expand on the 10…

8 min readJun 28, 2020

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Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

Hispanic Last Names: Why Two of Them?

One of the most misunderstood characteristics of Hispanic culture is the use of our last names…

7 min readJun 23, 2020

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Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

What Can CS Departments Do?

What can computer science departments do combat racism and increase diversity?

6 min readJun 10, 2020

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Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones

Puerto Rican PhD in Computer Science, love salsa, sports, diversity, scifi, and comics. Opinions are mine & don’t reflect my employer.

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