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Tribute from Bharadwaj Pudipeddi

On my first day at Microsoft in Sunnyvale, the person at the desk adjacent to me was having her breakfast wearing a headset while deeply...

from: Winston Worrell

I said "God hates black people" She took my hand and smiling said "No, only you." She 'Dances with Bunny Slippers.' All hail the Pirate...

Strength: from Carolyn Wales

One of the words that I think of when I think of Sue is ‘strength’. Sue was not a physically intimidating person, and she certainly...

Engineering: from Carolyn Wales

Sue was, of course, an engineer, and she was the kind of engineer who liked to get her hands dirty. I suspect that if she’d been born a...

Women in Tech: from Carolyn Wales

As a female hardware engineer, Sue was acutely aware of the difficulties women faced in the tech industry. Getting respect without being...

Painting and Art: from Carolyn Wales

I met Sue through a mutual friend, Carla. In retrospect, it may be clear that we were always going to be friends since we had so much in...

Cats: from Carolyn Wales

When I met her, Sue had this big, floppy, loose limbed cat named Ivan. She could do just about anything to Ivan. She’d pick him up by his...

Food: from Carolyn Wales

You think of people who really like food as being at least a bit on the corpulent side, yet Sue was razor thin. She cared a lot about...

From Laura Carrie

I first met Susan when she came to my home in Chicago with her sister to celebrate Christmas. I remember the quick tutorial she gave me...

From Rob Scott

I enjoyed working with Sue. She was my manager for a while, while I was contracting, and then my co-worker when I went full-time. We took...

Vignette: from Tanj Bennett

Susan and I worked together for a few years. I came up with an idea for a compression algorithm in silicon: first thing I knew she...

Sue versus Madame Catso

Sue and Adrian had two cats: Mr QT and Madame Catso. Madame Catso’s name reflected her inordinate fondness for food. We had an automatic...

Sue’s Coffee Order

Sue was very particular about her coffee: double decaf cappuccino (you’re absolutely sure it’s decaf, right?), very dry (seriously, just...

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