Los Angeles, June 8: The tech community has tragically lost its much loved computer science expert, Rajeev Motwani, in a drowning accident on Friday, June 5, 2009. The Stanford University professor Motwani died unexpectedly at his Atherton, CA home on Friday. He was 45.

The India-born professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, who was also the early mentor of Google Inc and Paypal, apparently died after drowning in a backyard swimming pool on Friday morning at his Bay area home he purchased three years ago.

Family’s nanny found Motwani’s body in the swimming pool. Soon after, paramedics were called who pronounced him dead at the scene at 12:28 p.m., according to the San Mateo County coroner’s office.

Motwani, who was born in Jammu, grew up in Delhi and graduated from IIT Kanpur, did not know how to swim but was planning to take lessons, reported mercurynews.com, citing his friends.

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