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Sergey Brin
Co-founding Google with Larry Page.
Search-engine paper · Google Search
- Born
- 21 August 1973
- Birthplace
- Moscow, Russia
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Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who helped turn a university search project into a global technology company.
Early life
Childhood migration
Moved from the Soviet Union to the United States with his family at six.
University
Studied mathematics and computer science at Maryland before graduate research at Stanford.
Career
- 1990s
Stanford research
Met Larry Page and worked on web search.
- 1998
Google
Co-founded the company.
- 2015–2019
Alphabet president
Served as president of Google’s new parent company.
Companies & projects
Search-engine paper
Co-authored the technical description of Google’s early search system.
Google Search
Helped build a service that ranked web pages using links and other signals.
Google Glass
Publicly demonstrated the experimental wearable-computing project.
Beyond work
Family background
His parents worked in mathematics and scientific research.
Medical philanthropy
Has supported Parkinson’s research after his mother was diagnosed with the disease.
Sources & photo credit
Biography and career ↗Further source ↗Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
Photo: Steve Jurvetson. CC BY 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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