=================== 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.) **********************

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.