Sergey Brin

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Sergey Mikhailovich Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович 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 on September 21st, 2006,^[2] making him the 26th richest person in the world and 12th richest person in the United States.^[3]

 

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 lecturer at 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. http://www.mysergeybrin.com

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."^[4] 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."^[5] The paper has since gone on to become the tenth most accessed scientific paper at Stanford University.

Miscellaneous

Sergey is often invited to speak at conferences and forums for academia, business, and technology. He has appeared on television shows and documentaries, including the Charlie Rose Show, CNBC and CNN. In 2004, he and Larry Page were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. In January 2005 Sergey Brin was nominated to be one of the World Economic Forum's "Young Global Leaders."

Sergey and Larry Page recently purchased a Boeing 767 airliner for their business and personal needs. The plane's interior was supposed to be redesigned by aviation designer Leslie Jennings, but a legal battle between the designer and the holding company that owns the plane stalled the renovation. Jennings claims that Eric Schmidt referred to the 767 as a "party airplane". The plane would hold about 50 passengers when refurbished, and would include a California King Size Bed.^[6] Brin is also known as an executive producer of Broken Arrows.

See also

• List of billionaires
• Lawrence E. Page (co-founder of Google)
• Google

External links

• Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People
• Video of Brin giving a lecture at UC Berkeley - Mentions Wikipedia and discusses development of search engines, Google and its evolution, Q&A (Fall 2005)

Interviews

• Linux Journal interview - 31 August 2000
• Net Café Television Interview - 6 October 2000. Interview starts around 18 minutes and 15 seconds in.
• Fresh Air radio interview - 14 October 2003
• Search Engine Watch interview - 16 October 2003
• UK Channel 4 television interview with Sergey Brin - 31 March 2004
• Time Magazine Podcast about Google and its founders

Articles

• Forbes.com: Fortunes That Roared In 2004
• "We hope that someday this institution will eclipse Google itself in overall world impact by ambitionsly applying innovation and significant resoures to the largets of the worlds problems"Sergey Brin and Larry Page

References