This photo appeared in the University News, Volume 11, Number 4, March 29 to April 19, 1985. The text was: "Computing Science Chair Filled Professor Leslie Keedy has taken up his appointment to the Foundation Chair of Computer Science at the University. Professor Keedy, who is 44 years of age, was educated in the United Kingdom, and first studied theology at King’s College, London University graduating B.D. (Hons) in 1964. This was followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in theology from Trinity College, Oxford University (1968). From 1968 to 1974 he worked with International Computers Ltd in the UK and West Germany, initially ass a systems programmer. After being promoted to design consultant he became a member of the central design team responsible for VME-B, the main general purpose operating system for the ICL2900 series of computers. He came to Monash University in 1974 as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science. He was promoted to senior Lecturer in 1978 and completed a further PhD (Computer Science) as a staff member of that University. In 1982 he was appointed full professor of Computer Science and head of the Operating Systems Research Group at the Technical University of Darmstadt, West Germany, with seven academic and technical staff. In 1984 he became Director of the Institute of Practical Computer Science, which had a staff of five professors with their research groups. Professor Keedy’s research interests (in which he has gained a notable international reputation) are in the areas of operating systems, computer architecture and hardware, software engineering and programming language design. In 1976 he established the MONADS Project at Monash with the aim of developing techniques which improve the quality of large software engineering projects and which provide a better technological basis for guaranteeing the privacy of information in computer systems. This research has led to the development of a workstation computer, the MONADS-PC, which recently attracted international recognition at the 1985 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, where a paper describing its design was designated best paper in the hardware section. The other main achievement of the project has been the development of a new very high level programming language LENIBNIZ, the work on which has mainly been carried out in Darmstadt The Chair of Computer Science is located in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. The policy of the Department is to promote the application of mathematical disciplines to other fields including physical, social and life sciences, engineering, economics, commerce and the management sciences. Professor Keedy’s initial aims are to re-establish the MNADS Project here in Newcastle and to introduce a first year Computer Science course in the near future. He is also interested in promoting the use of computing throughout the University, including areas not conventionally associated with modern technology. Professor Keedy’s background of research and teaching will greatly aid the integration of computing studies within the University. In particular, with the appointment also of Professor Cantoni to a Chair of Computer Engineering last year, the University is now in a very strong position to provide academic leadership in this growing and all-important area of contemporary study." This photo also appeared in the Campus bulletin, Number 2, May 16, 1988. The text was: "PROFESSOR LES KEEDY, the University's Foundation Professor of computer Science, has resigned. He expects to take up his new position - Professor of Computer Science (operating systems) at the University of Bremen, West Germany - in November. He also becomes Director of a new Institute for Operating systems and Computer Architecture within a new Computer Science Technology Centre currently being established by the State of Bremen. Bremen is a major seaport, with a population of about 750,000. It has a long commercial and cultural history, being one of the mediaeval free city states of the Hanseatic League. Even today it is a separate free city-state within the Federal Republic of Germany, and is one of the most important commercial centres in northern Europe. Professor Keedy said there was a separate Faculty of computer Science at the University of Bremen, with seven full professors and four associate professors. His establishment would include four personal research assistants and a secretary. He expected to use the research positions to gather together his former research team from his earlier period as Professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He had also been offered an extremely generous establishment grant (about A$170,000) and funding which would enable him to visit Australia regularly to maintain links with the MONADS research group, which would continue at the University of Newcastle under the leadership of Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Dr

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