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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

Susan Landau

Program, Keychain, Badge

Images Copyright 2008 by Katy Dickinson

On
27 Febuary, I wrote a blog about Sun Labs’

Susan Landau, Distinguished Engineer, winning the
Anita Borg Institute
2008
Women of Vision Award in the Social Impact category.
Sun has 58 executives, engineers, students, and interns attending
tomorrow’s WOV celebration event, with Sun CTO

Greg Papadopoulos giving the welcome address! We are all very proud of
Dr. Susan Landau.

But, I am also proud of Sun’s Engineering community which made this
celebration possible:

• The women who applied for the award on Susan’s behalf, put together
  the nomination package, including executive letters of recommendation
  from Sun’s leadership, and nurtured it through the process.
• The executives who put up the funding to cover Sun’s
  Gold sponsorship of the event. (The fee was split three ways between
  Software, Operations, and the CTO/Sun Labs group.)
• The Marketing staff who designed the program advertisement.
• The University Relations staff who invited 20 students and interns
  to sit at Sun’s tables at the event.

Among Sun’s 58 attendees, we have students and interns from a dozen
schools and universities, plus Sun staff from Labs, Systems, Legal,
Operations, Human Resources, SunIT, Marketing, Microelectronics, and
Sales. Everyone wants to celebrate!