Comments on: Rajeev Motwani, Early Google Advisor And Silicon Valley Luminary, Has Passed Away

By: Infoaxe Launches Real-Time Search Engine Based On Web History Platform | ScooperNews.com

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:06:15 +0000

[...] InfoAxe could have a promising real-time product. Advised at Stanford by the late Rajeev Motwani, InfoAxe has raised $900,000 in seed funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Labrador Ventures, Band [...]

By: Reminder: Celebrate Rajeev Motwani’s Life On September 25

Reminder: Celebrate Rajeev Motwani’s Life On September 25 — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:43:03 +0000

[...] is a reminder to those of you would like to celebrate the life of Rajeev Motwani, who passed away on June 5, 2009, to RSVP as soon as possible for the September 25 memorial and concert. The [...]

By: “Professor Rajeev Motwani’s Untimely Death On Friday”

“Professor Rajeev Motwani’s Untimely Death On Friday” — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:47:15 +0000

[...] news of Professor Rajeev Motwani’s untimely death on Friday afternoon spread quickly throughout the couple of hundred attendees of tonight’s [...]

By: strange_world

strange_world — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:19:26 +0000

Is Life Absurd ？

By: Kamal Hasa

Kamal Hasa — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:09:38 +0000

It’s not about the curiosity. A news is not considered News if it ain’t complete.

By: Rajeev Motwani

Rajeev Motwani — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:59:27 +0000

[...] Rajeev Motwani, Early Google Advisor And Silicon Valley Luminary … (techcrunch.com) – June 05, 2009Tragic news today for the Silicon Valley community. Rajeev Motwani, a prominent Silicon Valley angel investor and the Stanford professor perhaps best known … [...]

By: We lost a great developer…

We lost a great developer… — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:27:46 +0000

[...] Add to last weekend’s tragic death of Rajeev Motwani, who was one of the early people involved in Google and a well respected Stanford Professor, and it just makes me sad. [...]

By: k.r.prasad

k.r.prasad — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:16:32 +0000

My condolences to the departed great soul

By: Cola

Cola — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:27:00 +0000

Sorry, the news is reporting that he drowned — http://www.merc...ies/ci_12541606.

He may have had a heart attack, but one thing. He didn’t go the way of David Carradine.

By: Glowtouch Technologies

Glowtouch Technologies — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:06:07 +0000

We were shocked and deeply saddened to hear about the death of Rajeev Motwani. He was very talented and had enormous knowledge on Databases, Data Mining, Information Retrieval. His contribution to Google and many more startup companies has made India feel proud. We salute him for all the works and contributions in the field of information technology.

By: Hemant Kumar Mishra

Hemant Kumar Mishra — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:21:10 +0000

Rest him in peace!
My condolence to his family and to all the students who have read him and admired his work. Being from same IIT fraternity of his alma mater, I have refered his book – FLAT (Formal Languages & Automata Theory) and also Randomized Algorithm in two courses. It was master piece, and still serves as reference, while I am engaged into R&D area of data-mining, machine learning and predictive algorithms.
Indeed data-mining area I have got interest into due to a number of research articles and papers due to him. A couple of days back I had ventured, as usually I do, while refering to his tutorials on the following courses- Data Structure and Algorithms, Randomized Algorithms. In my work for Microsoft’s online search engine, I have refered to his work to understand online keyword search algorithms.
I pay my tribute to this great computer scientist.

Rest in peace and may the nascent mind be enlightened and motivated by his work.

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Kumar Hemant (Mishra)
SETLabs, Infosys, Bangalore, India

By: Hemant Kumar Mishra

Hemant Kumar Mishra — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:18:56 +0000

Rest him in peace!
My condolence to his family and to all the students who have read him and admired his work. Being from same IIT fraternity of his alma mater, I have refered his book – FLAT (Formal Languages & Automata Theory) and also Randomized Algorithm in two courses. It was master piece, and still serves as reference, while I am engagd into R&D area of data-mining, machine learning and predictive algorithms.
Indeed data-mining area I have got interest into due to a number of research articles and papers due to him. A couple of days back I had ventured, as usually I do, while refering to his tutorials on the following courses- Data Structure and Algorithms, Randomized Algorithms. In my work for Microsoft’s online search engine, I have refered to his work to understand online keyword search algorithms.
I pay my tribute to this great computer scientist.

Rest in peace and may the nascent mind be enlightened and motivated by his work.

-
Kumar Hemant (Mishra)
Bangalore, India

By: Vivek

Vivek — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:47:12 +0000

The passing of this Rajeev Motwani is indeed a tragic loss to all humanity. Please refrain from overreactions and unfounded innuendo as you are taking away from the memory of a great man. This has nothing to do with race and there is no conspiracy theory.

By: armnhammer

armnhammer — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:51:23 +0000

You don’t know what you’re talking about! He did not drown but probably had a heart attack, complete cause will be known in a couple days – autopsy takes that long. How can you put out innuendo of this cheap and horrible nature? You do his memory a big disservice. His wife — so you can satisfy your horrible curiosty — is devastated. I cannot believe I am reading this type of shameful commentary…
PS. And wake up times have changed — Indian women do not always change their last names. Why should they?

By: A.N.Shukla Abhai

A.N.Shukla Abhai — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:30:48 +0000

Extremely shocking news… A Very Sad Moment for all of us IT professionals…

Mr.Motwani’s death has brought a very big loss for many in Information Technology World. May his soul rest in peace.

By: Sanjay Tandon

Sanjay Tandon — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:32:15 +0000

Rajiv’s brilliance was outdone only by his humility. This is really tragic. My heart goes out to his family. May his soul rest in peace.

By: Kumar Ron

Kumar Ron — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:12:29 +0000

This has to be a suspicious death, no sindhi will drown like that, sindhi’s are know’s to have this fighithing spirit to come out of any situation, going by his record, he has saved many new start up’s, he will never go down like that, please investigate his death,
some questions: why his wife did not change ler last name after marriage ? why she is not called by last name Motwani, which is very common practice is Sindhi’s,

By: Khurrum

Khurrum — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:20:27 +0000

That’s very true. I studied his books when I was a CS student and continue to think in a certain way because of that. This is such a huge loss.

By: Shesh Vasudevarao

Shesh Vasudevarao — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:00:15 +0000

Accidental drowning

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 10:11:09 +0000

It is a sad news for India. Mr.Motwani’s death has brought a big loss for many in Information Technology World.

India has lost one of her proud son.

By: Silicon Valley Grieves Rajeev Motwani’s Passing

Silicon Valley Grieves Rajeev Motwani’s Passing — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:11:46 +0000

[...] news of Professor Rajeev Motwani’s untimely death on Friday afternoon spread quickly throughout the couple of hundred attendees of tonight’s [...]

By: Snow Crash

Snow Crash — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 17:52:52 +0000

Yes, “Home Accident” is very cryptic.

What happened, and why is it not being reported?

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:23:06 +0000

A “swimming pool accident”: http://blog.com...ev-motwani.html

By: RIP

RIP — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:05:41 +0000

> It’s really is a sad news. But what’s bothering me is
> that the cause of his death was just mentioned as
> Home accident. And there has been no actual
> information available regarding that..

Yeah, because satisfying people’s morbid curiosity is *so* more important..sigh…

My deepest sympathies to his family and his closest people. His spirit will live on through his vast contributions and the “ripples” he created http://sunsetsl...sun-review.html).

By: Rohil

Rohil — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:31:35 +0000

This such tragic news. His book on Randomized Algorithms is one my my favourites.

Rest in Peace.