Maria Keet

BIOGRAPHY

Maria Keet is an R&D manager at a startup and an extraordinary professor in computer science, focusing on Artificial Intelligence. She wrote a number of scientific publications, an award-winning postgraduate textbook on ontology engineering (College Publications, 2nd ed. 2025), a book on the what and how of modelling information and knowledge (Springer, 2023), and a memoir, and several non-fiction magazine articles that have been republished by The Next Web and Mail & Guardian, among others. She dabbles in writing fiction, and “Autonomous Decisions: Computing quandaries in short fiction” (KREST Publishers, 2025) is her first collection of short stories.

 

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An Introduction to Ontology Engineering
The What and How of Modelling Information and Knowledge
Autonomous Decisions Computing quandaries in short fiction
No Taming of the Enthusiast: A scenic route into computer science

Stories

Beneficial Complications
by
The patient sat straight up, the look in her eyes exhorting him to salvage her thirties. As if he, her managing doctor, could do so. He mulled over what to tell her; it wouldn’t be good news.
- Pages:
2
- Age Rating:
U

The Outer Circle
by
A mere 63 for the assignment! “No, this won’t do,” Rob muttered. He had been fascinated by the city’s illustrious past as a member of the Hanseatic League and had spent the better part of the spring break collecting local history facts for the essay. He deserved more for his efforts.
- Pages:
5
- Age Rating:
PG

Melokuhle - Good Things
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"I can't make it sound more enticing than that," the doctor sighed from behind his desk, dispirited, but Lubanzi was hooked on the idea. A caring robot sounded cool, and it would help him live in his apartment in Claremont again.
- Pages:
9
- Age Rating:
PG