Rajeev Motwani was the mentor of the founders of the search engine when they were students at Stanford
University.
Sergey Brin paid tribute to his former professor, returning to update his blog after a long silence: "Today, any part of technology you''re using, there''s a good chance behind that there''s a part of Rajeev Motwani".
He was found in the swimming pool of his home in Atherton, California. Rajeev Motwani, 47 years, was not anyone. Born in Jammu, India, had moved to America to take a doctorate in "Computer Science" at the
University of Berkeley. Although less well known to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, his research on mathematics and algorithms have played a key role in the birth and development of Google.