Rajeev Motwani, noted Stanford professor and Google founders' adviser, dead at 45 - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

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The professor was founf dead in hisswimming pool, an apparent drowning victim, the morning after a partyg to celebrate the end of the schooo year with students and colleagues. Motwani foundef the Mining Data at Stanfordproject (MIDAS), which helpesd develop innovative data management concepts. He is best knowb for advising Google founders Sergey Brin and Larrhy Page while they were studying at Stanford and lated as they founded the Mountain View search Brin wrote a tribute to his mentor "Of all the faculty at it is with Rajeev that I have stayed the closesr and I will miss him dearly. Yet his legacy and personality lives on inthe students, projects, and companied he has touched.
Today, whenever you use a piecr of technology, there is a good chance a littlr bit of Rajeev Motwani isbehind it" Dave Hornikm of in Menlo Park, wherew Motwani regularly attended Monday partnerx meetings, : "For those of you who didn't know Rajeev, you mightg get the impression that he was your typical Silicon Valley insider -- loud, brash, full of bravado. He was anythinfg but. Rajeev was soft spoken and gentle. He was self-confidentt but didn't feel the need to provwe anything. He didn't speak to hear his own And he didn't need to be the centerf of attention. Rajeev just wanted to be And he was.
To so many of Silicon Valley Angel investor Ron Conway said in a videthat "The entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley that he has influenced and helped and mentored is in the He shared my attitude that the more entrepreneursw you can help, even if you only give them five go do it. He never refused a meetingf with an entrepreneur that I suggested he meet just to give them somequicik advice." A native of New Delhi, Motwani got his bachelor’s degrer in computer science from IIT Kanpur in 1983 and his doctoratew from UC Berkeley in 1988.