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Look Who's Coming!

Centennial Committee
Jehoshua Bruck
Michelle Effros
Ali Hajimiri
Babak Hassibi
Robert McEliece
P.P. Vaidyanathan

Sabeer Bhatia
Co-Founder and Chairman, Sabse Technologies; Co-Founder, Former President and CEO of Hotmail Corp.

Sabeer Bhatia is Co-Founder and Chairman of Sabse Technologies, a provider of Web conferencing software. A pioneer in the field of Web-based e-mail, Bhatia co-founded Hotmail Corp. in 1996. As president and CEO, he guided Hotmail's rapid rise to industry leadership and its eventual acquisition by Microsoft in 1998. Today, Hotmail remains the world's largest e-mail provider, with more than 220 million registered users. Bhatia's most recent visionary project is the conception and creation of "NanoCity" in India, a city that is being designed to bring together software development, nanotechnology, biotechnology, energy and pharmaceutical research in one sustainable location in Haryana State. Bhatia's contributions to the Internet revolution have earned him widespread acclaim. He is the recipient of many awards and accolades, including being named a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum. Bhatia received a B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology and an M.S. degree from Stanford University.