lech_keller
29.05.03, 02:44
Honorary Research Associate
Dr LECH KELLER was born in Lódz (Poland) in 1949. He has graduated in 1973 at
the Warsaw School of Economics (Szkola Glówna Handlowa - SGH, former Szkola
Glówna Planowania i Statystyki or Central School of Planning and Statistics)
with a degree BComm (Hons.). He also holds the degrees of MA (Economic
Geography, The University of Melbourne, 1996) and PhD (Monash University,
2002) for a dissertation on Stanislaw Lem as a political writer and the
latter's visions of the future.
In the early 1970s he implemented computer systems in SGH. Later he worked as
a Business Analyst (designer of Management Information Systems) and Research
Assistant at the Institute of Organisation and Management in Warsaw (Instytut
Organizacji Zarzadzania i Doskonalenia Kadr). From 1980 to 1981 he was a Data
Processing Manager at the State Foreign Trade Enterprise "Impexmetal" in
Warsaw. Between 1982 and 1984 he lectured Computer Science at the University
of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and worked as a Systems Analyst for
Datapoint Corporation. In 1984 he migrated to Australia where he worked as a
Systems Analyst and Consultant for large "high-tech" companies such as
Compaq, Tandem and Telstra (formerly Telecom Australia) as well as for ANZ
Bank and CashCard, where he designed and implemented Electronic Fund Transfer
systems.
He has written several books on computer programming, including Programowanie
w jezyku Databus (Programming in Databus Language; Warszawa, 1979). Recently
he has published on the effects of the current socio-economic transformation
in Central-Eastern Europe at Monash University ("East Europe Forum"
and "Occasional Papers"), as well as in SGH ("Biuletyn Instytutu Gospodarstwa
Spolecznego"). He is also a co-author of Literature in Times of Crisis
(Melbourne, 1997), and has published several papers on Stanislaw Lem and the
Strugatsky brothers in "The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review" (USA), "Science
Fiction" (University of Western Australia), "Acta Polonica Monashiensis"
and "Polish Studies - Occasional Papers" (Monash University). He is also a co-
editor of the latter series, and publishes "popular science" articles in the
Polish language press in Australia, as well as in "Skrzydlata Polska" and
Internet magazines.
For further information contact:
Dr Lech Keller
Room W305
Phone: 9905 2252
Email: Lech.Keller@arts.monash.edu.au
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