Comments for Remembering Rajeev Motwani

Comment on Rest In Peace by Sinha Niraj

Sinha Niraj — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:52:06 +0000

My hearfelt respect and homage being paid to the departed great soul of a great computer scientist belonging to the computer science world from IITK and Stanford.

N.S.
An Engineering Graduate in Computer Science From Motilal Nehru NIT(formerly REC) ,University of Allahabad UP INDIA

Comment on Rest In Peace by Goran

Goran — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:54:15 +0000

My deepest condolences to Rajeev’s family, he was a good Professor and even a better man.

Comment on Rest In Peace by Gary Lippman

Gary Lippman — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:57:56 +0000

Rajeev Motwani worked as my Teaching Assistant at UC Berkeley when he was a graduate student there in the mid-1980s. The course was CS 172, Formal Languages and Automata Theory. The text was the book by Hopcroft and Ullman. Rajeev Motwani later became one of the authors of the new edition of the text.

As I was teaching CS 172 for the very first time in my life, and had never taken a formal course on the subject, I was very fortunate to have working with me a teaching assistant who was brilliant, very knowledgeable about the subject matter, and very patient with me. It was a joy to work with Rajeev Motwani during that semester at UC Berkeley. I certainly miss him, and will always remember him, his contributions to the course I was teaching, and his contribution to the world of Computer Science.

Comment on Rest In Peace by Yuri Smirnov

Yuri Smirnov — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:49:15 +0000

I met Rajeev first time 15 years ago during his visit to CMU as an external thesis committee member of one of PhD students. Rajeev was young and brilliant. Over years he seemed only to gain on both qualities. I had multiple references to Rajeev’s work in my thesis and follow-up work. We stayed in touch, the news came as a shock! It is so sad to lose such a talent, such a great person so early.

Comment on Rest In Peace by Matt

Matt — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:45:11 +0000

One of the best professors that I’ve ever had. He was a fantastic teacher. It was incredible the way he was able to answer questions and explain concepts in different ways until people understood. It was like he understood instantly what was confusing people and already knew the best way to respond.

Comment on Rest In Peace by Souvik

Souvik — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:50:04 +0000

A Computer scientist like him who have contributed so immensely will always be fondly remembered. May his soul rest in peace.

Comment on Rest In Peace by Ajit de Silva

Ajit de Silva — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:02:41 +0000

I could never attend Stanford University to study Computer Science: either as an undergraduate or graduate. But I never failed to visit the Computer Science Dept. web site at least once a month.

When I did that, I always visited Prof. Motwani’s page because of Randomized Algorithms. Though I could not understand his work, I always downloaded his latest papers.

Today, a quick glance through the latest CACM brought the news of his untimely demise. I was sad, to say the least and I regretted that I never wrote to him to ask for his assistance to understand his work - CACM referred to him as a very helpful person: a motivator and a mentor.

I hope his family would find solace in these thoughts and my fond memories of a man whom I never forgot to meet in cyberspace!

Comment on Rest In Peace by bhaskar Roy K

bhaskar Roy K — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:55:39 +0000

I have taught Automata Theory from his excellent book. Though I have no personal link with him I feel sad at his sudden demise

Comment on Rest In Peace by Abid

Abid — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:32:55 +0000

I usually met him during conferences. Always gave me a sincere advice on my research. Great person. Always miss him.

Comment on Rest In Peace by Kavin Asavanant

Kavin Asavanant — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:21:00 +0000

Many times, I chatted with my friend how cool and baller Professor Motswani was. He was such a wonderful professor for my CS154 class. Always miss you.