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.
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.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 21.7 ms ] threadIf you are thinking of doing a PhD in distributed systems, I would strongly recommend you to consider him.
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.
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.
Also, the transcript uses "multitask" in a place where I'm quite sure "multicast" should be used - you might want to look into that.