Tuesday, January 15, 2013

"Epic introductions of History" - Page/Brin

Since you have access to Internet I am guessing that you might have heard of Google Inc. founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. there's no romance in how they met but given the impact of their venture I considered worth of an "Epic introductions of History" entry.

Brin immigrated to the United States with his family from the Soviet Union at the age of six. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland, following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, as well as computer science. After graduation, he moved to Stanford University to acquire a Ph.D. in computer science. There he met Larry Pagewho was in search of a dissertation theme and considered exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph. later they became friends. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin's data mining system to build a superior search engine. The program became popular at Stanford and they suspended their PhD studies to start up Google in a rented garage. The rest is History,...
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