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Rajeev Motwani was a Stanford Professor that has died at the age of 45.
He was an early advisor and supporter of companies including Google Inc. and PayPal Inc.
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He is best known for advising Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page while they were studying at Stanford and later as they founded the Mountain View search giant. Brin wrote a tribute to his mentor on his blog: "Of all the faculty at Stanford, it is with Rajeev that I have stayed the closest and I will miss him dearly. Yet his legacy and personality lives on in the students, projects, and companies he has touched. Today, whenever you use a piece of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of Rajeev Motwani is behind it"
He was an early advisor and supporter of companies including Google Inc. and PayPal Inc.
Excerpt from Business Journal:
He is best known for advising Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page while they were studying at Stanford and later as they founded the Mountain View search giant. Brin wrote a tribute to his mentor on his blog: "Of all the faculty at Stanford, it is with Rajeev that I have stayed the closest and I will miss him dearly. Yet his legacy and personality lives on in the students, projects, and companies he has touched. Today, whenever you use a piece of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of Rajeev Motwani is behind it"
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Rajeev Motwani was a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research in the areas of data mining and algorithms has helped computer science advance rapidly. Professor Motwani died as a result of a swimming pool accident on June 5,2009.
Rajeev Motwani was a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Rajeev was also born in New Delhi India. He was also a co-author for the book "Randomized Algorithms"
He has won awards such as
Gödel Prize, Okawa Foundation Research Award and Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship.
He has won awards such as
Gödel Prize, Okawa Foundation Research Award and Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship.
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Rajeev Motwani was a computer science professor at Stanford University and a very well known "Angel" investor in the early Silicon Valley Days. He was involved in PayPal and Google , and was best known for being the mentor of the two men that invented/founded Google. He died unexpectedly at the age of 45.
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