Rajeev Motwani- might be this name seems unfamiliar to many, but in the technology world and at Stanford University ( Google born from this university ), he was a very respectable person and mentor in whole. Rajeev passed away on June 5, 2009.
Google Co-founder Sergey Bin wrote in his Blog in the memory of Rajeev, this article. Sergey remembers Rajeev as mentor and friend.
Rajeev was a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His homepage at Stanford University here. His research interests included Databases, data mining, information retrieval, and web searching. Motwani was one of the co-authors ( With Larry Page and Sergey Bin- Google co-founders ) of influential PageRank Algorithm. And the people who knows about how google works, knows the importance of Pagerank Algorithm. One can say – The Google is PageRank Algorithm. Motwani never seemed to care about that limelight. He was quietly working for the technology which is affecting every one of us who uses Google today and forever. He was an early advisor and supporter of Google and Paypal.
Rajeev born in Jammu to a Sindhi family. He completed his B.Tech in Computer Science at IIT Kanpur and got his Ph.D. in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley.
Om Malik of GigaOm wrote about Rajeev as the close friend. TechCrunch – The tech world’s biggest blog Inviting Everybody for the life celebration of Rajeev on September 25th at Stanford University.
Finally I would like to tribute Rajeev in Sergey Bin’s Words.
Eventually, as Google emerged from Stanford, Rajeev remained a friend and advisor as he has with many people and startups since. 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 live 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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