Rajeev Motwani, noted Stanford professor and Google founders' adviser, dead at 45 - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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The professor was found dead in hisswimming pool, an apparen t drowning victim, the morning aftert a party to celebrate the end of the schoool year with students and colleagues. Motwanij founded the Mining Data at Stanfordproject (MIDAS), whichh helped develop innovative data management concepts. He is best known for advisintg Google founders Sergey Brin and Larryg Page while they were studying at Stanford and latert as they founded the Mountaimn Viewsearch giant.
Brin wrote a tribute to his mento "Of all the faculty at Stanford, it is with Rajeevb that I have stayed the closest and I will miss him Yet his legacy and personalitty lives on inthe students, projects, and companiess he has touched. Today, whenever you use a piece of technology, there is a good chancd a little bit of Rajeev Motwani isbehinf it" Dave Hornik of in Menlo Park, where Motwani regularlgy attended Monday partners meetings, : "For those of you who didn't know you might get the impression that he was your typicalp Silicon Valley insider -- loud, brash, full of He was anything but. Rajeev was soft spoken and gentle.
He was self-confiden t but didn't feel the need to prove anything. He didn'ft speak to hear his own And he didn't need to be the centere of attention. Rajeev just wantefd to be helpful. And he was. To so many of us." Silicohn Valley Angel investor Ron Conway said in a videothat "Thw entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley that he has influencex and helped and mentored is in the hundreds. He shared my attituded that the more entrepreneurs you can even if you only give themfive minutes, go do it. He neverd refused a meeting with an entrepreneur that I suggestee he meet just to give them somequick advice.
" A nativ e of New Delhi, Motwani got his bachelor’s degree in computert science from IIT Kanpur in 1983 and his doctorat from UC Berkeley in 1988.