Innovative, they gave lawyers a mini heart attack, and yet they avoided any copyright claims. Saw this today in Hyderabad, India.

India!!! Woohoo! I stopped watching after halftime out of superstition. Watched penalties. Which team comes back after being down one man in 1st quarter? Thought it impossible.

Not allowed! On Indian planes in hand baggage. Coconuts (!!!), packing tape (!!), mace (gadaa, the weapon, not the spray!). 🤭 (At Hyderabad airport today)

“The Hindu”, one of India’s top newspapers interviewed me on my recent India trip in July, on #cloud computing for AMD ‘s podcast. A bit technical, though I tried to keep it light. 30 minutes video. Watch free here! thehindu.com/brandhub/amd-c…

500 seats. Where I’ll be teaching Distributed Systems at @IllinoisCDS this #Fall2024. Plus another 200 online/Coursera students. Just a 400-level mixed grad/undergrad elective class. University of Illinois sure has awesome new classrooms (this is in the brand new CIF bldg).

213K views for this interview of mine that was released 2.5 weeks ago... (By "The Hindu", one of India's top newspapers) youtube.com/watch?v=nHxvE1…

When alumna Le Xu visited us this week my students and I went out for Peruvian dinner and then our group tradition of ice cream at Jarling’s.

It's here! My "CS425 Rap Song". Original lyrics, music, and video shot in The Grainger College of Engineering & University of Illinois campus. The song tells the story of the 4 Programming Assignments in my #distributedsystems course @IllinoisCDS (and much more!). CS425 Rap Song: youtu.be/J8OQjfIRfV0

1K views in the first 48 hours! My new “Distributed Systems Rap Song” Video. (Ok ok, it’s not “viral” like Taylor Swift or anything, but happy that students liked it.)

I did a live musical lecture yesterday, ending with a performance of my "Lamport Timestamps Song" in my #DistributedSystems class. I added a bonus verse on yesterday's AI Nobel Prize news. The bonus verse predicted the Chemistry (AI) Nobel prize today! youtube.com/watch?v=5kF_4B…

#Aurora Borealis Timelapse. Took it outside Champaign #Illinois yesterday. First time seeing #northernlights with naked eyes! youtu.be/-r15nhZw-0I?si…

Do "musical lectures" work? An experiment... My Fall24 class midterm had 5 questions, each worth 20 pts. For 4 of the 5 questions, median score < 20. The 5th q had a median of 20 (ie > 50% students got a perfect score!) That q was on Timestamps, only topic with a song lecture.

"But we already have a Quorum!" (Pic taken in my backyard today) #DistributedSystems #Birds #Robins

"The Idea", modeled after "The Voice". 15 minute brainstorming competition, + 2 min pitch. 9 teams. The ideas blew us away! Winner: "iSpy". Second place (two teams tied): "Neural..." and "Registry" (titles snipped for confidentiality). At Systems&Netw. Retreat, @IllinoisCDS .

IEEE Fellow, as of today! I love all my students and collaborators. @IllinoisCDS The Grainger College of Engineering #IEEE siebelschool.illinois.edu/news/gupta-202…

It's STILL a fascinating time to be working in Distributed Systems! Here's a reading list of 70+ Distributed Systems papers, *just from 2024*! CS525 UIUC Spring 2025 Reading List (new!): go.siebelschool.illinois.edu/CS525SP25Readi… (Slides in "Schedule" in above doc, available on those dates).

Be sloppy, not precise! When using ML in systems, "sloppification" (wisely) is secret sauce to being fast & effective! For ML Inference Scaling w/ sub-second latency SLOs. W/ student Beomyeol Jeon & IBM Research. At Eurosys '25 doi.org/10.1145/368903… EuroSys 2025. @IllinoisCDS

Distributed Systems Rap Song! I recorded this last year, to salve researchers'/students' strong reactions to receiving reviews to their paper/project. Enjoy! #distributedsystems #rap #project #reviews #reviewer2

My research group at UIUC! PhD, MS, and a couple of undergrads. (Missing a couple of PhD students.) dprg.cs.uiuc.edu Siebel School of Computing and Data Science University of Illinois #Meadowbrook