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October 9, 2006 · 12:18 pm

Wrapping up the Hopper Conference

More than 30 Sun women attended and worked at the Hopper conference in San Diego last week. Working at Sun’s recruiting table and at the Treasure Hunt table gave us opportunities not only to talk with potential new Sun staff but also to get to know each other better. I think I have seen two dozen enthusiastic emails just this morning from the Sun Engineers, executives, and managers who attended the Hopper conference and came home with a buzz.

Several names got inadvertently left off of the presenters’ list on Sun’s press release “Sun Microsystems’ Executives Among Leading Presenters at 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing”. The whole list of Sun presenters was:

  • Katy Dickinson (Director, Business Process Architecture, CTO and Sun Labs) and Carol Gorski (Director, CTO and Sun Labs HR) 4 October: talk on mentoring at the TechLeaders Workshop on “5 Years of Mentoring by the Numbers”
  • Ingrid Van Den Hoogen (Sun Sr. Vice President, Brand, Global Communications and Integrated Marketing), and Emily Suter Ransford (Sun Business Development Manager, Marketing) 4 October: “It Takes a Village (and Vision): The Role of Communities and Interoperability in Next Generation Networks” poster session
  • Dr. Radia Perlman (Distinguished Engineer, Sun Labs) 5 October: “What’s a PKI, why would I want one, and how should it be designed?” invited speech 6 October: introducing keynote speech by Dr. Sally Ride
  • Katy Dickinson (Director, Business Process Architecture, CTO and Sun Labs) 5 October: “Mentoring by the Numbers” panel by Katy Dickinson, with Dr. Carol Muller (Founder, MentorNet), and Dr. Mary Jean Harrold (Georgia Tech)
  • Dr. Gilda Garreton (Staff Engineer, Sun Labs) 5 October: “Latinas in Engineering” BOF (Birds of a Feather)6 October: “Research in Industrial Labs: How Collaboration Aid Innovation” talk by Tarik Ono and Dr. Gilda Garreton
  • Tarik Ono (Staff Engineer, Sun Labs)6 October: “Research in Industrial Labs: How Collaboration Aids Innovation” talk by Tarik Ono and Dr. Gilda Garreton
  • Dr. Susan Landau (Distinguished Engineer, Sun Labs) 6 October: “Non-Traditional Ways to Advance Your Career” panel

Links and references updated 28 March 2014

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March 18, 2006 · 2:38 pm

Singing Competition – CMEA

My 17-year-old daughter and I just got back from thecCMEAc(California Association for Music Education) Solo & Ensemble Festival at San Jose State Univ., that is: a musical performance competition. Jessica’s school, Harker, was doing very well when we left. Everyone from Harker who had performed in either voice or instrument had gotten the highest rating of “Superior”. One of Jessi’s friends from Susan Nace’s Cantilena (Upper School Women’s Choir) even earned a “Superior with Command Performance”. Of course, we stayed to hear Gail sing again in the big auditorium.

Jessica sang “Gretchen am Spinnrade” (“Margaret at the Spinning Wheel”) with music by Schubert and lyrics by Goethe. With a Superior rating, Jessi can go on to the state CMEA competition in May in Sacramento.

I sat in the performance room while Jessi was warming up with her teacher and accompanist. The overall quality of the performances by Junior High School and High School singers and instrumentalists was impressively good. I have certainly heard many adult professional performers with much less technique and passion.

The Middle School kids who helped run the event and the music teachers who served as judges all did a good job. Even the performers who needed much improvement were sent off with gentle and specific instructions and praise for what they did well. Happily, the worried parents were well behaved and quiet about filming their beloved’s performance.

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