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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"
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He has won awards such as
Gödel Prize, Okawa Foundation Research Award and Arthur Sloan Research Fellowship.
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| June 06, 2009 05:39 PM |
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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June 06, 2009 05:48 PM
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.
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June 06, 2009 05:49 PM
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.
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June 07, 2009 03:39 AM
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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