Friday, October 5, 2012

Stanford prof who advised Google founders dies - Sacramento Business Journal:

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Motwani founded the Mining Data at Stanforcproject (MIDAS), which helped develop innovativer data management concepts. He is best knowbn for advising Google foundere Sergey Brin and Larry Page while they were studying at Stanfordx and later as they founded the Mountain View search Brin wrote a tribut to his mentor onhis blog: "Off all the faculty at Stanford, it is with Rajeev that I have stayeds the closest and I will miss him Yet his legacy and personality lives on in the students, projects, and companiezs he has touched.
Today, whenever you use a piecr of technology, there is a good chance a little bit of Rajeeg Motwani isbehind : "For those of you who didn't know you might get the impression that he was your typicaol Silicon Valley insider -- brash, full of bravado. He was anythint but. Rajeev was soft spoken and gentle. He was self-confident but didn'tg feel the need to prove He didn't speak to hear his own And he didn't need to be the center of Rajeev just wanted tobe helpful. And he was. To so many of that was postedon YouTube, "The entrepreneurs in Silicobn Valley that he has influencedr and helped and mentored is in the hundreds.
He shareed my attitude that the more entrepreneurs youcan help, even if you only give them five go do it. He never refused a meetingv with an entrepreneur that I suggested he meet just to give them somequick advice." A native of New Delhi, Motwani got his bachelor’ds degree in computer science from IIT Kanpur in 1983 and his doctorate from the , Berkeley in 1988.

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