Sergey Brin – Computers & Software

Sergey Brin (Russian: Сергей Брин) (born August 21, 1973) is a Russian American entrepreneur. Born in Moscow, Russia to a Jewish family, Brin studied computer science and mathematics before co-founding Google with Larry Page.

Brin is currently the President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $14.1 billion as of September 1, 2006, making him the 26th richest person in the world and 12th richest person in the United States.[2]

Contents

1 Education

2 Interest in search engines

3 See also

4 References

5 External links

5.1 Interviews

5.2 Articles

Education

Sergey attended grade school in the U.S. at Paint Branch Montessori School in Adelphi, Maryland, but he received further education at home; his father, a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Maryland, nurtured his interest in mathematics and his family helped him retain his Russian language skills. In September 1990, after having attended Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Sergey enrolled in the University of Maryland, College Park to study Computer Science and Mathematics, where he received his Bachelors of Science in May 1993 with high honors. After graduating from Maryland, Sergey received a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation, which allowed him to study for his masters degree in Computer Science at Stanford University. Sergey received his masters degree in August 1995 ahead of schedule in the process of his Ph.D. studies. Though he is still enrolled in the Stanford doctoral program, Sergey has suspended his Ph.D. studies indefinitely while he is working at Google. Sergey also received an honorary MBA from the Instituto de Empresa.

Interest in search engines

Sergey expressed interest in the Internet very early on in his studies at Stanford. He authored and co-authored various papers on data-mining and pattern extraction. He also wrote software to ease the process of putting scientific papers often written in TeX, a text processing language, into HTML form, as well as a website for film ratings.

The defining moment for Sergey, however, was when he met future co-president of Google, Larry Page. According to Google lore, Page and Brin "were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995."[3] They soon found a common interest: retrieving relevant information from large data sets. Together, the pair authored what is widely considered their seminal contribution, a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine."[4] The paper has since gone on to become the tenth most accessed scientific paper at Stanford University.