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Re:Héctor García-Molina has passed away by aloukissas on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:47PM (#21641338)
Sorry, I've also just learned from a Stanford CS professor friend of mine and haven't found other sources. But it's sadly true from what it looks like.
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Re:Héctor García-Molina has passed away by aloukissas on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:52PM (#21641370)
A couple other DB professor friends of mine have also confirmed.
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Re:Héctor García-Molina has passed away by greenyoda on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:22PM (#21642861)
Thanks for the information. He was a prof of mine a long time ago, and I found him to be inspiring. I'm sorry to hear of his untimely death.
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Re:Héctor García-Molina has passed away by vogelito on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:43PM (#21679863)
You can now see an official mention at https://inmemory.stanford.edu/

"Hector Garcia-Molina, the Leonard Bosack and Sandy K. Lerner Professor in Engineering, Emeritus, and professor emeritus of computer science and of electrical engineering, distinguished for his work in distributed computing systems, digital libraries and database systems, died Nov. 26."

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