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Thisdaypeople.com present goggle founders as our guest of the month.
Google has since become the world’s most popular search engine, receiving more than 200 million queries each day.
Headquartered in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, Google held its initial public offering in August 2004
making Page and Brin billionaires.
Larry Page
Co-Founder & President, Products
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Larry Page was Google's founding CEO and grew the company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into his role
as president of products in April 2001. He continues to share responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations with Eric Schmidt
and Sergey Brin.
The son of Michigan State University computer science professor Dr. Carl Victor Page, Larry's love of computers began at age six.
While following in his father's footsteps in academics, he became an honors graduate from the University of Michigan,
where he earned a bachelor's degree in engineering, with a concentration on computer engineering. During his time in Ann Arbor,
Larry built an inkjet printer out of Lego™ bricks.
While in the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Larry met Sergey Brin, and together they developed and
ran Google, which began operating in 1998. Larry went on leave from Stanford after earning his master's degree.
In 2002, Larry was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader for Tomorrow. He is a member of the National Advisory Committee
(NAC) of the University of Michigan College of Engineering, and together with co-founder Sergey Brin, Larry was honored with
the Marconi Prize in 2004. He is a trustee on the board of the X PRIZE, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering
in 2004.
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Sergey Brin
Co-Founder & President, Technology
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Sergey Brin, a native of Moscow, received a bachelor of science degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the
University of Maryland at College Park. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University,
where he received his master's degree. Sergey is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship as well as an
honorary MBA from Instituto de Empresa. It was at Stanford where he met Larry Page and worked on the project that became Google.
Together they founded Google Inc. in 1998, and Sergey continues to share responsibility for day-to-day operations with Larry Page
and Eric Schmidt.
Sergey's research interests include search engines, information extraction from unstructured sources, and data mining of large
text collections and scientific data. He has published more than a dozen academic papers, including Extracting Patterns and
Relations from the World Wide Web; Dynamic Data Mining: A New Architecture for Data with High Dimensionality, which he published
with Larry Page; Scalable Techniques for Mining Casual Structures; Dynamic Itemset Counting and Implication Rules for Market Basket
Data; and Beyond Market Baskets: Generalizing Association Rules to Correlations.
Sergey has been a featured speaker at several international academic, business and technology forums, including the World Economic
Forum and the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. He has shared his views on the technology industry and the future
of search on the Charlie Rose Show, CNBC, and CNNfn. In 2004, he and Larry Page were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News
Tonight.
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