Sun Presentations at Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

The Hopper conference
announced its acceptances yesterday. I just finished
collecting review results from Sun’s submitters. Sun staff submitted
or were part of groups which submitted 19 proposals to Hopper 2009 and
13 were accepted (69%) – Sun’s best acceptance rate ever! This includes
Susan Landau’s invited technical talk. The 2009 Sun presenters are from a very
broad range of Engineering disciplines: Microelectronics,
Software, Storage, Sun Labs, and the Systems group.

GHC 2009 will be held:

Tucson, Arizona

September 30 – October 3, 2009

Sun will be a

Platinum Corporate Sponsor for the Hopper conference again this year.

Also, my daughter Jessica
sent in two GHC 2009 submissions, both of which were accepted. This is
Jessica’s third Hopper conference and her second as an accepted presenter
(she started out on my

Girl Geeks panel in 2007). Jessica has just finished her Sophomore year
at Carnegie Mellon University.

Sun’s accepted submissions are:

1. “Bits and Bites: Explaining Communications Security (and Insecurity) to Washington and Brussels” invited technical talk by
   Susan Landau
2. “3D Collaborative Environments for Social Good” (Sun Proposal – accepted as a poster),
   Gilda Garreton and
   Nicole Yankelovich
3. “Designing for the 100+ Year Archive” (Sun Proposal – accepted as a poster), with
   Cathleen Wharton
4. “Developing sustainable technologies for an improved future” (panel submitted by Intel), includes Sudesna Dash
5. “Formal verification on leading edge microprocessor design” (Sun Proposal – accepted as a poster) by
   Catherine Ahlschlager, Pamela Parish, and
   Shrenik Mehta
6. “From Spec. to Silicon: Successful Validation of a Server-class SoC Microprocessor” (Sun Proposed Presentation), with
   Manisha Hardikar
7. “Open Source Community Development” (Sun Proposed Panel), includes
   Valerie Fenwick,
   Teresa Giacomini, and others
8. “Solving the Two Body Problem: Creating Technology While Maintaining Your Social Life” (NASA Proposed Panel), includes
   Katy Dickinson
9. “Speed Mentoring for Latinas in Computing” (IBM Proposed BOF), includes
   Gilda Garreton
10. “Technical Mentorship and Sponsorship: Why You Need It and How to Find It” (Google Proposed Panel), includes
    Cathleen Wharton
11. “The Value of Awards & How to Get Them” (Sun Proposed Panel), includes
    Katy Dickinson
12. Video blogging (Sun Proposal – accepted as a poster), includes
    Deirdre Straughan
13. “Women and the Flat Connected World” (Sun Proposed Panel), includes
    Meenakshi Kaul-Basu

Some Hopper 2008 Photos:

Jessica’s Poster

Sun Reception

M Kaul-Basu

Susan Landau interview

Images Copyright 2008 Katy Dickinson