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Crete Sunrise and Sunset

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After six wonderful years at UIUC @siebelschool, I’m thrilled to announce that I will join the University of Toronto ECE @eceuoft as an assistant professor in July 2026. I’m actively looking for PhD students in fall 2026. Drop me an email if you are interested in working with me.

@xu_dong_sun @siebelschool @eceuoft Congratulations, Xudong!! @eceuoft is lucky to have you!!

This is a black-and-white photo; only the lines have color. 😲 Great illustration of a general truth: Your perceptual system fills in the gaps in the incomplete data from your senses. [Link below.]

A replica of the famed Dolphin Mural at Crete’s Palace of Knossos collapsed on Friday, sparking concerns about the maintenance of the archaeological site. ekathimerini.com/culture/126999…

@tianyin_xu @xu_dong_sun @siebelschool Congrats Dr @xu_dong_sun !! Very well deserved!! 🎉🎉

This's official: DR. @xu_dong_sun from @siebelschool! Brilliant defense; brilliant research; brilliant person! Thank you, Xudong, for what you've been doing in the past 6 years and for making me a much better person, researcher, and advisor!

We see no possible way this could go wrong

Chloe (@chpoppins) and Stratos (@ps0mas) and Co received a Best Paper Award at @ASPLOSConf for their work -- "CXLfork: Fast Remote Fork over CXL Fabrics." CXLfork is a remote fork interface that realizes close to zero-serialization, zero-copy process cloning across nodes over CXL fabrics. Congratulations! Very well deserved! cc @IllinoisCDS @cslab_ntua

Greece's youngest-ever goalscorer 🇬🇷 Konstantinos Karetsas. Remember the name 🌟 #NationsLeague

Illini-Alert Emergency. There is a tornado warning that may affect campus until 01:00am. Take shelter indoors immediately. More information to come.

guess we’re the only ones doing free baggage now

Jovan Stojkovic (@jovanvr1997) from @IllinoisCDS presented his paper, "Concord: Rethinking Distributed Coherence for Software Caches in Serverless Environments" at @HpcaArchConf in Las Vegas.

Christopher Nolan’s next film ‘The Odyssey’ is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film technology. The film brings Homer’s foundational saga to IMAX film screens for the first time and opens in theaters everywhere on July 17, 2026.

Whenever I see unexpected punctuation marks like ‘.’ or ‘,’ inside quotes, I just know ChatGPT or a similar tool generated that text.

Strong Components and Weak Components youtube.com/watch?v=au26uZ… online.stanford.edu/donald-e-knuth… 2024 Annual Christmas Lecture Don Knuth

@xstefanou Η Πελόσι λέει ότι φταίει ο Μπάιντεν που δεν αποχώρησε νωρίτερα, γιατί δεν έδωσε τη δυνατότητα να γίνουν primaries --πιστεύει ότι πάλι θα έβγαινε η Κάμαλα, αλλά πιο "δυνατή". Δεν ξέρω, ούτε αυτή η εκτίμηση με πείθει.

Η Διαμαντοπούλου πιστεύει ότι ο Τραμπ βγήκε λόγω της woke ατζέντας. Και ο Τραμπ το ίδιο πιστεύει.

I had a super fun video call with my mom today! We talked about her career journey so far. I even showed her how to use @LinkedIn and we set up an account for her! :)

In Iran, a woman who was accosted by the “morality police” for not wearing hijab removes her clothing & roams the streets in defiance. She has since been arrested by IRGC forces and forcibly disappeared. This is the brave face of true resistance.

Stay alive, friends. Not just today, but tomorrow too.