Last night the amazing
Women of Vision event was held in downtown San Jose. Sun Labs’
Susan Landau, Distinguished Engineer, won the
Anita Borg Institute
2008 WOV Award in the Social Impact category. Sun’s CTO
Greg Papadopoulos gave the welcome address at the Imperial Ballroom of the
Fairmont Hotel. Some photos from the inspiring event are below.
In a few days, videos of the 3 winners’ acceptance speeches will be posted on YouTube.
Those of us who are building the new
MAGIC program for mentoring middle school girls are already planning how
to use these videos in our program. All of the acceptance speeches were amazing
but
Helen Greiner (Co-founder and Chairman, iRobot, 2008 WOV winner for
Innovation) was particularly moving when she spoke about never even once having
been encouraged to consider Engineering as a career when she was a girl,
despite her aptitude and fascination for math and computers, and
our obligation not to let that kind of negligence continue into the new generation.
To make it easier to find the videos from the first two WOV events, here are links:
Woman of Vision Radia Perlman Video 2005 WOV Winner for Innovation
(Radia Perlman is Sun’s first woman Fellow!)
Woman of Vision Janie Tsao 2005 WOV Winner for Leadership
Woman of Vision Pamela Samuelson Video 2005 WOV Winner for Social Impact
Deborah Estrin, Women of Vision 2007 WOV Winner for Innovation
Deborah Estrin, Acceptance Speech
Duy-Loan Le, Women of Vision for Leadership 2007
Duy-Loan Le, Acceptance Speech, part 1
Duy-Loan Le, Acceptance Speech, part 2
Leah Jamieson, Women of Vision for Social Impact 2007
Leah Jamieson, Acceptance Speech
Greg Papadopoulos
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Susan Landau
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Program, Keychain, Badge
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