| K1 Keynote Speech "IPv6: Making the Dream
Real" |
| Mon. 3 December 09:45-10:45 |
| Jawad Khaki oversees development of all networking and
communications technologies within the Windows operating system, including
the information protocols and application program interfaces (APIs)
used for wire line and wireless networking. Since Khaki was named
vice president in April 2000, his division has worked on wireless,
home networking, peer-to-peer and real-time communications capabilities
in Windows XP, the newest version of the operating system, and Windows
.NET Server, the first Microsoft server product built on Microsoft's
.NET framework. Khaki's 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.
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. He has worked on networking
technologies since joining Microsoft in 1989. He started as a software
design engineer in the then Networking Business Unit and has contributed
to the networking communications technologies in Windows 95, 98
and 2000 and Windows XP. He helped spearhead the effort to add dial-up
networking, wireless networking and 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 Great Britain.
Khaki holds a bachelor of science degree in computer engineering
from City University, London. A native of Tanzania, he has lived
in five different parts of the world and done mentoring and other
community work since he was 13.
He is president and founding director of a local community organization
and is currently leading an effort to establish the first purpose-built
mosque and religious educational facility for his Eastside community
in Washington State's King County, which includes Redmond and Bellevue.
He also is an active leader and teacher at community weekend programs
for children and youth.
He and his wife, Kaniz, have two daughters, Ateqah and Asiya, and
a son, Ali.
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