=================== Extract from earlier announcement =========================
Mr Jawad Khaki, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft in charge of
Networking, is visiting the CSE Department on
Sunday, 6 January 2001. (This is not a typo. It is a Sunday.)
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He will be giving a talk as follows:
Topic : The future of networking
Time : 11.00 am
Date : 6 January 2001 (Sunday)
Place : CSE Seminar Hall
All interested are welcome to attend his talk.
Interested faculty and students are welcome to be present in the discussion
slot after his talk.
====================== Bio and schedule =======================
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/jawadk/default.asp
Jawad Khaki -Corporate Vice President
He works in development of all networking and
communications technologies within the Microsoft
Windows operating system, including the information
protocols and application program interfaces (APIs)
used for wireline and wireless networking.His division
has worked on wireless, home networking, peer-to-peer
and real-time communications capabilities in Windows
XP, Windows .NET Server.
His division is focused on
enabling an always-on, hassle-free dream network that
is secure and scaleable. This network also will offer
the necessary infrastructure components to support
enterprise solutions, revolutionize the peer-to-peer
Web, and enable new and exciting consumer scenarios by
extending the Web to the home and the home to the Web.
He started as software design engineer in what was
then the Networking Business Unit and has contributed
to the networking communications technologies in
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
He helped spearhead the effort to add dial-up
networking, wireless networkingand broadband
infrastructure to Windows.
Before coming to Microsoft, Khaki worked at AT&T Bell
Laboratories, where he developed UNIX operating system
software. He also developed minicomputer hardware,
firmware and operating system software while working
for GEC Computers Ltd. in Britain.
Khaki combines strong technical skills with a
passionate drive to make live communication via
computer networks as convenient and pervasive as
talking on a telephone.
--
MTech Student,
Reconfigurable Computing Lab,
KReSIT, IIT-Bombay.
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