Sunday, June 7, 2009

Google Mentor Rajiv Motwani died of an accident

Google mentor Mr Rajiv Motwani died of an accidental drowning at his own home in his swimming pool on friday at 12:28 pm.
He was found dead in the swimming pool at 12:28 pm on friday .He is supposed to have died due to accidental fall in the pool and during the period when he had started to learn swimming.He was 47 yrs old and working with stanford university as computer science professor.He is supposed to be the mentor of google's  co-founder sergey brin  and lary page ,when they were graduate students.
He was a very genious person who was working on management of data and it was his main subject in which he had done great research work also.
His work had a major impact on the field of algorithms, and he used his knowledge of that field to develop methods for searching almost infinite archives of data by randomly selecting subsets of the data. It was in the field of data mining that he made some of his seminal contributions.
This work was the basis of the today's modern search engines like google and others.

He helped many Valley startups gain a foothold, but none so famous as Google, whose cofounder Sergey Brin mourned him Saturday.

'I want him to really be remembered well. It's a rare combination to have somebody who is so smart and also such a nice guy,' Brin told Mercury News on the phone.

Motwani, he added, 'had a lot of interest in computer science theory. He's primarily a theoretician, and it's incredible the amount of impact he has had directly on products and companies.'


May the departed soul rest in peace 


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