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MANIPAL: A man who is defined by family, inquisitiveness, hunger for knowledge, empowerment. These qualities that sum up the newly crowned Microsoft CEO are now buzzwords on the Manipal University campus which is elated at Satya Nadella's achievement. For those who closely followed the Nadella story in recent months, there's a positive takeaway for teachers and students: there are no barriers for an inquisitive mind.
Harischandra Hebbar, director, School of Information Science, Manipal University, knows it well. As Nadella's teacher and project guide on robotics, Hebbar recalls him as a "person not to be convinced easily". "He was always inquisitive and more often than not asked: can it work this way? His problem-solving nature saw his core technical competency coming to the fore which has stood him in good stead,'' he says. His name was registerd as Nadella Satyanarayana in the institution's record. MIT director Vinod Thomas said that Nadella was invited to the silver jubilee alumni reunion of the 1988 batch last year on December 21.
"He emailed us his inability to attend. We'll invite him again next year," says Thomas. K Prabhakar Nayak, head of Electronics and Communications department who recalls Nadella as an academically brilliant and friendly student.
Virag Jasani,student council president, MIT says: "We have been following his story and are proud of his success.An important trait of his personality is loyalty which is often misconstrued as weakness or inability. He is an inspiration to all of us."
Vishal Krishna and Saksham Nijhawan, who have been placed at Microsoft, are motivated by Nadella's message of empowering others and they too want to share his passion. "It's a movement and we want to be part of it,'' they add.
Pallavi Reddy, who got a job with an IT company after interning there, says: "As a student ready to embark on the journey to the corporate world, having an alumnus of MIT as the CEO of one of the IT giants, definitely motivates us to target higher levels of success."
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Nadella spent a lot of time in the lab and always asked 'Why can't we do it this way?' He always thought out of the box and went beyond syllabus | Harischandra Hebbar, director, School of Information Science, Manipal University.
Nadella was a sincere and hardworking student and an inspiration for the present generation students. | Vinod Thomas, director, MIT.
Nadella has shown that there is life beyond curriculum and students should be innovative in their academic activities. | Simanthika Mohapatra, E&C student, MIT.
Delighted to hear about the appointment of Nadella, a fellow Manipal alumnus. | Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP.
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