Lawrence "Larry" Page[2] (born March 26, 1973) is the American co-founder of Google Google Inc. is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the " Inc., along with Sergey Brin Sergey Brin is a Russian-American computer scientist, who, along with Larry Page, is best known as the co-founder of Google, Inc., the world’s largest Internet company , based on its search engine and online advertising technology. Together with Page, they are often referred to as the "Google Guys". According to Forbes he is currently. They are often known together as the "Google Guys". According to Forbes Forbes, Inc. is a privately held publishing and media company. Its flagship publication is Forbes, a bi-weekly magazine, with a circulation over 900,000. In August 2006, the private equity firm, Elevation Partners, became a minority shareholder in a newly formed company, Forbes Media, which encompasses Forbes magazine and Forbes.com, one of the he is currently the 24th richest person in the world with a personal wealth of US$17.5 billion in 2010.[1]
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Early life and education
Page was born into a Jewish family in East Lansing, Michigan East Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, though a small portion lies in Clinton County. The population was 46,525 at the time of the 2000 census. It is best known as the home of Michigan State University.[3] His parents were computer science professors at Michigan State University Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act. Its alumni include at least six winners of the Pulitzer Prize. MSU’s record of Rhodes Scholars.[4] During an interview, Page said that "their house was usually a mess, with computers and Popular Science magazines all over the place." His attraction to computers started when he was six years old when he got to "play with the stuff lying around." He became the "first kid in his elementary school to turn in an assignment from a word processor."[5] His older brother also taught him to take things apart, and before long he was taking "everything in his house apart to see how it worked." He said,"From a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became really interested in technology...and business. So probably from when I was 12 I knew I was going to start a company eventually."[5]
Page attended the Okemos Montessori The Montessori method is an approach to educating children based on the research and experiences of Italian physician and educator Maria Montessori . It arose essentially from Dr. Montessori's discovery of what she referred to as "the child's true normal nature" in 1907, which happened in the process of her experimental observation of School (now called Montessori Radmoor) in Okemos, Michigan from 1975 to 1979, and graduated from East Lansing High School East Lansing High School is a public high school in the city of East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It is managed by the East Lansing Public Schools district (1991).[6] He holds a Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years (see below) degree A degree is any of a wide range of status levels conferred by institutions of higher education. Such as with other professions, teaching in universities is only carried out by people who are properly qualified. In the same way that a carpenter would pass through the grades of apprentice and journeyman to attain the status of master carpenter when in computer engineering Computer engineering (also called electronic and computer engineering, computer science & engineering, or computer systems engineering) is a discipline that combines both electrical or electronic engineering (the terms vary in different parts of the world) and computer science. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering, from the University of Michigan The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public research university located in the state of Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan. It also includes two regional campuses in Flint and Dearborn with honours and a Masters degree A master's degree is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice. Within the area studied, graduates possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theoretical and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, in Computer Science Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems. It is frequently described as the systematic study of algorithmic processes that create, describe, and transform information. Computer science from Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States. The university was founded in 1891 by the Californian railroad tycoon Leland Stanford and named for his recently deceased son. Its alumni have founded the companies Hewlett-. While at the University of Michigan, "Page created an inkjet printer An inkjet printer is a type of computer printer that reproduces a digital image by propelling variably-sized droplets of liquid material onto a page. Inkjet printers are the most common type of printer and range from small inexpensive consumer models to very large and expensive professional machines made of Lego Lego is a line of construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark. The company's flagship product, Lego, consists of colorful interlocking plastic bricks and an accompanying array of gears, minifigures and various other parts. Lego bricks can be assembled and connected in many ways, to construct bricks" (actually a line plotter),[7] served as the president of the HKN Eta Kappa Nu is a national electrical and computer engineering honor society in the United States founded in October 1904 by Maurice L. Carr at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The organization currently has more than 200 student chapters and about 3,000,000 members and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois in Fall 1994,[8] and was a member of the solar car team.
After enrolling for a Ph.D Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated to PhD, Ph.D. or D.Phil. in English-speaking countries and Dr. Phil. or similar in other countries, for the Latin philosophiae doctor, meaning "teacher in philosophy", is an advanced academic degree awarded by universities. In most English-speaking countries, the PhD is the highest degree one can earn. program in computer science at Stanford University The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States. The university was founded in 1891 by the Californian railroad tycoon Leland Stanford and named for his recently deceased son. Its alumni have founded the companies Hewlett-, Larry Page was in search of a dissertation theme and considered exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW and commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them by using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, British, understanding its link structure as a huge graph In mathematics, a graph is an abstract representation of a set of objects where some pairs of the objects are connected by links. The interconnected objects are represented by mathematical abstractions called vertices, and the links that connect some pairs of vertices are called edges. Typically, a graph is depicted in diagrammatic form as a set.[9] His supervisor Terry Winograd Terry Allen Winograd is an American professor of computer science at Stanford University, and co-director of the Stanford Human-Computer Interaction Group. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language using the SHRDLU program encouraged him to pursue this idea, which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got".[10] Page then focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, considering the number and nature of such backlinks Backlinks are incoming links to a website or web page. Inbound links were originally important as a primary means of web navigation; today their significance lies in search engine optimization (SEO). The number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page (though other measures, such as PageRank, are also to be valuable information Information, in its most restricted technical sense, is an ordered sequence of symbols. As a concept, however, information has many meanings. Moreover, the concept of information is closely related to notions of constraint, communication, control, form, instruction, knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation about that page (with the role of citations Broadly, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source .[citation needed] More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression (e.g. [Newell84]) embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of in academic publishing Academic publishing describes the subfield of publishing which distributes academic research and scholarship. Most academic work is published in journal article, book or thesis form. The non commercial part of academic publishing is called grey literature. Much, though not all, academic publishing relies on some form of peer review or editorial in mind).[9] In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin Sergey Brin is a Russian-American computer scientist, who, along with Larry Page, is best known as the co-founder of Google, Inc., the world’s largest Internet company , based on its search engine and online advertising technology. Together with Page, they are often referred to as the "Google Guys". According to Forbes he is currently, a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student.[9]
John Battelle John Linwood Battelle is a journalist as well as founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing. He has been a visiting professor of journalism at UC Berkeley and also maintains Searchblog, a weblog covering search, technology, and media, co-founder of Wired magazine Wired is a full-color monthly American magazine and on-line periodical, published since March 1993, that reports on how technology affects culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast Publications, it is published in San Francisco, California, wrote of Page that he had reasoned that the "entire Web was loosely based on the premise of citation – after all, what is a link but a citation? If he could devise a method to count and qualify each backlink on the Web, as Page puts it 'the Web would become a more valuable place'."[9] Battelle further described how Page and Brin began working together on the project:
- "At the time Page conceived of BackRub, the Web comprised an estimated 10 million documents, with an untold number of links between them. The computing resources required to crawl such a beast were well beyond the usual bounds of a student project. Unaware of exactly what he was getting into, Page began building out his crawler.
- "The idea's complexity and scale lured Brin to the job. A polymath who had jumped from project to project without settling on a thesis topic, he found the premise behind BackRub fascinating. "I talked to lots of research groups" around the school, Brin recalls, "and this was the most exciting project, both because it tackled the Web, which represents human knowledge, and because I liked Larry."[9]
Brin and Page originally met in March, 1995, during a spring orientation of new computer Ph.D. candidates. Brin, who had already been in the program for two years, was assigned to show some students, including Page, around campus, and they later became good friends.[11]
To convert the backlink data gathered by BackRub's web crawler A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical, automated manner or in an orderly fashion. Other terms for Web crawlers are ants, automatic indexers, bots, or Web spiders, Web robots, or—especially in the FOAF community—Web scutters into a measure of importance for a given web page, Brin and Page developed the PageRank PageRank is a link analysis algorithm, named after Larry Page, used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection algorithm, and realized that it could be used to build a search engine A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information which must be consulted, akin to other techniques for far superior to existing ones.[9] It relied on a new kind of technology which analyzed the relevance of the back links that connected one Web page to another.[11] In August 1996, the initial version of Google was made available, still on the Stanford University Web site.[9]
Business
Main articles: Google Google Inc. is a multinational public cloud computing, Internet search, and advertising technologies corporation. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. The company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, often dubbed the " and History of Google Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford working on the Stanford Digital Library Project . The SDLP's goal was “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library." and was funded through the National Science Foundation among otherIn 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, Inc.[12] Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt Eric Emerson Schmidt ) is an engineer, Chairman/CEO of Google Inc. and a former member of the Board of Directors of Apple Inc. He also sits on the boards of trustees for Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University. He is author of the lex lexical analyser software for Unix as Chairman and CEO of Google. Both Page and Brin Sergey Brin is a Russian-American computer scientist, who, along with Larry Page, is best known as the co-founder of Google, Inc., the world’s largest Internet company , based on its search engine and online advertising technology. Together with Page, they are often referred to as the "Google Guys". According to Forbes he is currently earn an annual compensation of one dollar.
Personal life
Page married Lucinda Southworth at Richard Branson Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is a British industrialist, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 companies's Caribbean island, Necker Island Necker Island is a small island in the British Virgin Islands just north of Virgin Gorda, located at 18°31′38″N 64°21′29″W / 18.52722°N 64.35806°W. All of the land on the island is owned by Sir Richard Branson, famous for his Virgin brand, and it is part of the Virgin Limited Edition portfolio of luxury properties, on December 8, 2007.[13][14] Brin and Page are the executive producers of the film, Broken Arrows. In 2004, he and Sergey Brin Sergey Brin is a Russian-American computer scientist, who, along with Larry Page, is best known as the co-founder of Google, Inc., the world’s largest Internet company , based on its search engine and online advertising technology. Together with Page, they are often referred to as the "Google Guys". According to Forbes he is currently were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight World News with Charles Gibson is the flagship ABC News program of the American Broadcasting Company television network in the United States.
Larry Page spoke at the commencement ceremony of the University of Michigan in 2009,[15] at which time he also received an honorary Doctor of Engineering Degree.[16]
Other interests
Page is an active investor in alternative energy companies, such as Tesla Motors Tesla Motors Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based company that engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of electric vehicles and electric vehicle power train components. It is currently the only automaker building and selling highway-capable EVs in serial production (as opposed to prototype or evaluation fleet production) in North America or Europe, which developed the Tesla Roadster The Tesla Roadster is an all-electric sports car produced by the electric car firm Tesla Motors. Tesla has shipped more than 500 Roadsters to customers in the United States and Europe, and Canadian deliveries are expected to begin in late 2009. The Roadster can travel 244 miles on a single charge of its lithium-ion battery pack, and can accelerate, a 220-mile (350 km) range battery electric vehicle A battery electric vehicle, or BEV, is a type of electric vehicle that uses chemical energy stored in rechargeable battery packs.[17] He continues to be committed to renewable energy technology, and with the help of Google.org Google.org is the charitable arm of Internet search engine company Google, Google's philanthropic arm, promotes the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric cars and other alternative energy investments.[5]
Awards and recognition
In 2003, both Brin and Page received an honorary An honorary degree or a degree honoris causa is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived the usual requirements (such as matriculation, residence, study and the passing of examinations). The degree itself is typically a doctorate or, less commonly, a master's degree, and may be awarded to someone MBA The Master of Business Administration is a master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out scientific approaches to management. The core courses from IE Business School IE Business School is an independent, non-profit business school founded in 1973 by Diego del Alcázar. The School runs master's degree programs, executive master's degrees, executive education programs, and Ph.D. and DBA programs. In January 2010, the Financial Times ranked its MBA program as among the top three in Europe. The previous September, "for embodying the entrepreneurial spirit and lending momentum to the creation of new businesses..."[18] And in 2004, they received the Marconi Foundation The Guglielmo Marconi International Fellowship Foundation, briefly called Marconi Foundation and currently known as the Marconi Society, was established by Gioia Marconi Braga in 1974 to commemorate the centennial of the birth of her father Guglielmo Marconi) Prize, the "Highest Award in Engineering," and were elected Fellows A fellow in the broadest sense is someone who is an equal or a comrade. The term fellow is also used to describe a person, particularly by those in the upper social classes. It is most often used in an academic context: a fellow is often part of an elite group of learned people who work together as peers in the pursuit of knowledge or practice of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, and is the 5th oldest in the United States making it one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. Columbia's. "In announcing their selection, John Jay Iselin, the Foundation's president, congratulated the two men for their invention that has fundamentally changed the way information is retrieved today." They joined a "select cadre of 32 of the world's most influential communications technology pioneers..."[19] In 2005, Brin and Page were elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[20]
The World Economic Forum named Page as a Global Leader for Tomorrow and the X PRIZE chose Page as a trustee for their board.[7] PC Magazine has praised Google as among the Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines (1998) and awarded Google the Technical Excellence Award, for Innovation in Web Application Development in 1999. In 2000, Google earned a Webby Award, a People's Voice Award for technical achievement, and in 2001, was awarded Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature at the Search Engine Watch Awards."[21]
Larry Page received an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan on May 2, 2009 during the commencement ceremony exercises of the class of 2009.[22]
In 2009, he was ranked 26th on the Forbes list of the world’s billionaires and as the 11th richest person in America, despite his compensation of one dollar annually.[23][24]
In 2009, Brin and Page were ranked fifth on Forbes' "The World's Most Powerful People" list. [25]
References
- ^ a b [1]
- ^ http://infolab.stanford.edu/~page/
- ^ As reported in his own bio in his famous article on the Google invention, "Lawrence Page was born in East Lansing, Michigan. . . ." See Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, "Anatomy of a Search Engine" (retrieved January 25, 2010).
- ^ http://www.cse.msu.edu/endowment/carl_page.php
- ^ a b c Scott, Virginia. Google: Corporations That Changed the World, Greenwood Publishing Group (2008)
- ^ "Google Chooses Michigan for Expansion," Office of the Governor, State of Michigan, July 11, 2006 [retrieved March 6, 2010]
- ^ a b Google Corporate Information: Management: Larry Page
- ^ "HKN College Chapter Directory". Eta Kappa Nu. 2007-01-15. http://www.hkn.org/admin/chapters/beta_epsilon.html.
- ^ a b c d e f g Battelle, John. "The Birth of Google." Wired Magazine. August 2005.
- ^ The best advice I ever got (Fortune, April 2008)
- ^ a b Moschovitis Group. The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO (2005)
- ^ "Larry Page Profile". Google. http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#larry.
- ^ Google founder Larry Page to marry, Reuters.
- ^ Google Co-Founder Page to Wed, The Associated Press.
- ^ Transcript of 2009 UMichigan commencement address.
- ^ Honorary UMichigan Doctoral Degree.
- ^ SiliconBeat: Tesla Motors New Electric Sports Car
- ^ Brin and Page Awarded MBAs, Press Release, Sept. 9, 2003
- ^ Brin and Page Receive Marconi Foundation's Highest Honor, Press Release, Sept. 23, 2004
- ^ http://www.amacad.org/news%5Cnew2005.aspx
- ^ National Science Foundation, Fellow Profiles
- ^ "Larry Page's University of Michigan 2009 Spring Commencement Address=2009-10-6". http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/annc/20090502-page-commencement.html.
- ^ McDougal, Paul. "Bill Gates Is Still America's Richest Man", Information Week, Sept. 21, 2007
- ^ http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/54/rich-list-09_The-400-Richest-Americans_Rank.html
- ^ http://www.forbes.com/lists/2009/20/power-09_Sergey-Brin-and-Larry-Page_D664.html
External links
- Google Corporate Information: Management
- America's Best Leaders
- Larry Page's Alumni Profile Composite
- Channel 4 News: "Google's Vision", May 23, 2006
- "The Searchmeisters" – profile on Page and Brin from the B'nai B'rith Magazine (Spring 2006)
- Video: Google Founders - Charlie Rose interview from 2001 (14 min)
- On the Origins of Google
- Why you should ignore VCs, Larry Page speaks at Stanford
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| NAME | Page, Larry |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Paga, Lawrence |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Co-Founder & President of Products of Google Inc. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 26, 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lansing, Michigan |
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