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Sergey Brin
Brief Description: Son-of-college-math-professor turned co-founder of Google, Inc.
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"Research on the Web seems to be fashionable these days and I guess I'm no exception. Recently I have been working on the Google search engine with Larry Page."
With these now epochal words, Sergey Brin recorded on his Stanford University-hosted Web page his passionate interest in the "Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" that has since then changed the lives of everyone who has ever used the World Wide Web.
With a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Moscow-born Brin graduated with high honors in Mathematics and honors in Computer Science in May 1993 before moving to the Computer Science department at Stanford to study for his Ph.D. - studies which have been interrupted by the rise and rise...and rise...of Google.
"To engineer a search engine is a challenging task," he wrote in a paper co-authored with Larry Page. "Search engines index tens to hundreds of millions of web pages involving a comparable number of distinct terms. They answer tens of millions of queries every day. Despite the importance of large-scale search engines on the web, very little academic research has been done on them. Furthermore, due to rapid advance in technology and web proliferation, creating a web search engine today is very different from three years ago. This paper provides an in-depth description of our large-scale web search engine -- the first such detailed public description we know of to date. "
By 2004, with Google, Inc. now a public company, he and Larry Page were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. Brin's official title at Google is "Co-Founder & President, Technology."
He is currently "on leave" from the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, where he received his master's degree. So long as he continues to share responsibility for day-to-day operations with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, he probably won't be back.
Stanford's loss is the i-Technology world's gain.
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