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Rajeev Motwani died on June 5, 2009.
Google Advisor and Silicon Valley Luminary Rajeev Motwani was a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he also served as the director of graduate studies. Mr Motwani who was born in Jammu, India, graduated in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur in 1983, before doing his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988.

Motwani was known worldwide for his mentoring and advising founders of the companies like Google and PayPal.He was known to be the master brain behind several of the key advancement in the world of internet.
As a former technical advisor to Google and a mentor to the founders in their student days at Stanford, where the search engine took shape, Motwani owns an undisclosed amount of stock in Google.

The 47-year-old Motwani's body was found in the backyard swimming pool of his Palo Alto home in California on Friday.
It is a great loss to the google search team. can’t believe how swimming could cause the death of such an intelligent life.

Google founder Sergey Brin wrote on his blog: “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”.

Mr.Vinod Dham, one of the best known investors in the Silicon Valley said “ Mr Motwani’s biggest contribution to the valley was perhaps the coaching he offered to Google. “His contribution towards development of search algorithms was very, very significant,”

I wish the prayers from his countless fans and friends give his family the strength to overcome this loss.
May his soul rest in peace