Carleton College announced that Jawad Khaki, corporate vice president for Windows networking and device technologies at Microsoft Corporation, presented a convocation, titled “Realizing Potential in a Global Village,” at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 14, at the Carleton College Skinner Memorial Chapel.
In his 20s, he moved to the United States with his wife, two children, eight suitcases and five hundred dollars. Twenty years later, Khaki has over 700 patents filed under his management and he has contributed greatly to the development of Windows software, including the addition of dial-up and wireless networking and broadband infrastructure.