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His son Li Hongyi was a product manager at Google:

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/hongyi-li/30/832/161

Well, since you've opened the box...[edit: oops, I posted the younger son's profile instead of the elder's] his younger brother is quite prolific on Github (and seems to favour Scala):

https://github.com/lihaoyi

[Thanks for the correction raingrove]

Wrong person. This is the correct profile: https://github.com/fynyky

Nevertheless, his project "reactor.js" is impressive.

I think Dad might be taking a bit of flack until he picks up a Haskell book with these two in the family :-)

It's funny you're all surprised. I know him as a fellow classmate at MIT, not as a political figure.

That said I'm glad he's free to pursue his passions as a free-thinking individual and not pressured to do what his ancestors do.

14th author: http://research.google.com/archive/spanner.html

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