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Indranil Gupta on distributed systems

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I got my PhD under Indy. Besides being incredibly intelligent and resourceful, he is one of the nicest advisor one could wish for. He lives a balanced life (this includes things like hosting a 2-hour weekly radio show prior to getting tenure) and, as such, that kind of lifestyle transfers on to his students. Furthermore, he was always available. This combination of characteristics is the rare amongst young professors. I thoroughly cherished it.

If you are thinking of doing a PhD in distributed systems, I would strongly recommend you to consider him.

Hey Jay, David here (Ravi and I published the interview)

Did you listen to the audio or just read it? We want to tell the stories of working engineers, product managers, etc. in Silicon Valley and are wondering what the most appropriate medium would be.

We think these interviews will be more valuable later, as people look back months or years, to see what the state of the art was then, but they're also pretty interesting to read now.

Just another data-point here, I read it as well (instead of watching the video) because I find it faster to process information that way.

Also, the transcript uses "multitask" in a place where I'm quite sure "multicast" should be used - you might want to look into that.

We used a service called Casting Words to get the transcript made. I did a lot of hand-cleanup after they sent a first cut, but a few errors must've slipped through -- sorry.

I read it -- a while back actually. I ended up getting to it by following a link for some other interview that Ravi had posted on LinkedIn.

BTW, my actions might be biased: I like reading. If I had an option between reading and listening, I would pick reading most of the time.

I would add that my first semester at UIUC was very inspiring, thanks to Prof. Gupta

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