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.
"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."