Te Taka Adrian Gregory Keegan is a New Zealand academic and Māori language revivalist. He is descended from the Waikato-Maniapoto, Ngāti Apakura, Te Whānau-ā-Karuai ki Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Whakaaue iwi. ^[1]

With a background in hardware engineering, Keegan returned to the University of Waikato to pursue a Master's degree in Traditional Māori Navigation. ^{[2] [3]} He then became involved in the computer science department and became the first to teach computer science in immersion te reo Māori ^[4] He completed his PhD titled Indigenous Language Usage in a Digital Library: He Hautoa Kia Ora Tonu Ai based on work with the New Zealand Digital Library, a research project led by Ian H. Witten. ^{[5] [6]} His academic profile can be found at the Waikato University website. ^[7]

Keegan led the team that translated Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003 into te reo Māori ^{[8] [9]} and consulted with the team that translated Office 2013 and Windows 8. ^[10] The former involved coining many new terms, which have since been incorporated into A Dictionary of Māori Computer related terms. ^[11] He was also involved in SwiftKey having Māori as a supported language.

In association with spending a sabbatical at Google, Keegan was the driving language force behind Google Maori. ^{[12] [13] [14]} He is also one of the trustees of Tūhono, a database linking individual Māori with their iwi. ^[15]

Awards

In 2017, New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English presented Keegan with the nation's highest teaching award, ^[16] the Prime Minister's Supreme Award, in recognition of Keegan's sustained commitment to teaching and learning. ^[17]

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