Sergey Brin

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Брин; birth-in August 21, 1973) is a Russian American computer scientist and baron who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, the world's more good Internet company,citation needed based on its chase agent and online announcement technology.3 As of 2011, his claimed abundance is estimated to be $19.8 billion.1

Brin immigrated to the United States from Russia at the age of six. He becoming his undergraduate amount at the University of Maryland, afterward in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by belief mathematics, as able-bodied as computer science. After graduation, he confused to Stanford to access a Ph.D in computer science. There he met Larry Page, with whom he after became friends. They awash their billet allowance with bargain computers and activated Brin’s abstracts mining arrangement to body a above chase engine. The affairs became accepted at Stanford and they abeyant their PhD studies to alpha up Google in a busy garage.

The Economist annual referred to Brin as an "Enlightenment Man", and addition who believes that "knowledge is consistently good, and absolutely consistently more good than ignorance", a aesthetics that is summed up by Google’s adage of authoritative all the world’s advice "universally attainable and useful"4 and "Don't be evil".

Early life and education

Sergey Brin was born in Moscow to Jewish parents,5 the son of Michael Brin and Eugenia Brin, both graduates of Moscow State University. His father is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, and his mother is a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.67
edit Childhood in the Soviet Union

In 1979, when Brin was six, his family felt compelled to emigrate to the United States. In an interview with Mark Malseed, author of The Google Story,8 Sergey's father explains how he was "forced to abandon his dream of becoming an astronomer even before he reached college". Although an official policy of anti-Semitism didn't exist in the Soviet Union, Brin claims Communist Party heads barred Jews from upper professional ranks by denying them entry to universities; "Jews were excluded from the physics departments, in particular..." Michael Brin therefore changed his major to mathematics where he received nearly straight A's. He said, "Nobody would even consider me for graduate school because I was Jewish."9 The Brin family lived in a three-room, 30 square meter (350 square foot) apartment in central Moscow, which they also shared with Sergey's paternal grandmother.9 Sergey told Malseed, "I've known for a long time that my father wasn't able to pursue the career he wanted", but Sergey only picked up the details years later after they had settled in America. He learned how, in 1977, after his father returned from a mathematics conference in Warsaw, Poland, he announced that it was time for the family to emigrate. "We cannot stay here any more", he told his wife and mother. At the conference, he was able to "mingle freely with colleagues from the United States, France, England and Germany, and discovered that his intellectual brethren in the West were 'not monsters.'" He added, "I was the only one in the family who decided it was really important to leave...."9

Sergey's mother was less willing to leave their home in Moscow, where they had spent their entire lives. Malseed writes, "For Genia, the decision ultimately came down to Sergey. While her husband admits he was thinking as much about his own future as his son's, for her, 'it was 80/20' about Sergey." They formally applied for their exit visa in September 1978, and as a result his father "was promptly fired". For related reasons, his mother also had to leave her job. For the next eight months, without any steady income, they were forced to take on temporary jobs as they waited, afraid their request would be denied as it was for many refuseniks. During this time his parents shared responsibility for looking after him and his father taught himself computer programming. In May 1979, they were granted their official exit visas and were allowed to leave the country.9

At an interview in October, 2000, Brin said, "I know the hard times that my parents went through there, and am very thankful that I was brought to the States."10 A decade earlier, in the summer of 1990, a few weeks before his 17th birthday, his father led a group of gifted high school math students, including Sergey, on a two-week exchange program to the Soviet Union. "As Sergey recalls, the trip awakened his childhood fear of authority" and he remembers that his first "impulse on confronting Soviet oppression had been to throw pebbles at a police car." Malseed adds, "On the second day of the trip, while the group toured a sanitarium in the countryside near Moscow, Sergey took his father aside, looked him in the eye and said, 'Thank you for taking us all out of Russia.'"9
edit Education in America

Brin attended grade school at Paint Branch Montessori School in Adelphi, Maryland, but he received further education at home; his father, a professor in 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 in Greenbelt, Maryland, Brin enrolled in the University of Maryland, College Park to study computer science and mathematics, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in May 1993 with honors.11

Brin began his graduate study in Computer Science at Stanford University on a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation. In 1993, he interned at Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica.11 He is on leave from his Ph.D. studies at Stanford.12

Search engine development

During an acclimatization for fresh acceptance at Stanford, he met Larry Page. In a contempo account for The Economist, Brin jokingly said "We're both affectionate of obnoxious." They seemed to disagree on best subjects. But afterwards spending time together, they "became bookish soul-mates and abutting friends". Brin's focus was on developing abstracts mining systems while Page's was in extending "the abstraction of answer the accent of a analysis cardboard from its citations in added papers."4 Together, the brace authored what is broadly advised their seminal contribution, a cardboard advantaged "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Chase Engine."13

Combining their ideas, they "crammed their billet allowance with bargain computers" and activated their fresh chase agent designs on the web. Their activity grew bound abundant "to account problems for Stanford's accretion infrastructure." But they accomplished they had succeeded in creating a above agent for analytic the web and abeyant their PhD studies to assignment added on their system.4

As Mark Malseed wrote, "Soliciting funds from adroitness members, ancestors and friends, Sergey and Larry aching calm abundant to shop for some servers and hire that acclaimed barn in Menlo Park. ... anon after, Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a $100,000 analysis to “Google, Inc.” The alone botheration was, “Google, Inc.” did not yet exist—the aggregation hadn’t yet been incorporated. For two weeks, as they handled the paperwork, the adolescent men had boilerplate to drop the money."9

The Economist annual describes Brin's admission to life, like Page's, as based on a eyes summed up by Google's motto, "of authoritative all the world's advice 'universally attainable and useful.'" Others accept compared their eyes to that of Johannes Gutenberg, the artist of avant-garde printing:

"In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg alien Europe to the automated columnist press, columnist Bibles for accumulation consumption. The technology accustomed for books and manuscripts – originally replicated by duke – to be printed at a abundant faster rate, appropriately overextension ability and allowance to conductor in the European Renaissance. . . Google has done a agnate job."14

The allegory was additionally acclaimed by the authors of The Google Story: "Not back Gutenberg . . . has any fresh apparatus empowered individuals, and adapted admission to information, as greatly as Google."8:1

Not continued afterwards the two "cooked up their fresh agent for web searches, they began cerebration about advice that is today above the web", such as digitizing books, and accretion bloom information.4

Personal life

In May 2007, Brin affiliated Anne Wojcicki in The Bahamas. Wojcicki is a biotech analyst and a 1996 alum of Yale University with a B.S. in biology.215 She has an alive absorption in bloom information, and calm she and Brin are developing fresh agency to advance admission to it. As allotment of their efforts, they accept brainstormed with arch advisers about the animal genome project. "Brin aimlessly commendations analysis as a database and accretion problem. So does his wife, who co-founded the firm, 23andMe", which lets bodies assay and assay their own abiogenetic architecture (consisting of 23 pairs of chromosomes).4 In a contempo advertisement at Google’s Zeitgeist conference, he said he hoped that some day anybody would apprentice their abiogenetic cipher in adjustment to advice doctors, patients, and advisers assay the abstracts and try to adjustment bugs.4

Brin's mother, Eugenia, has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. In 2008, he absitively to accomplish a donation to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, area his mother is actuality treated.16 Brin acclimated the casework of 23andMe and apparent that although Parkinson's is about not hereditary, both he and his mother acquire a alteration of the LRRK2 gene that puts the likelihood of his developing Parkinson's in after years amid 20 and 80%.4 When asked whether benightedness was not beatitude in such matters, he declared that his ability agency that he can now booty measures to area off the disease. An beat in The Economist annual states that "Mr Brin commendations his alteration of LRRK2 as a bug in his claimed code, and appropriately as no altered from the bugs in computer cipher that Google’s engineers fix every day. By allowance himself, he can accordingly advice others as well. He considers himself lucky. ... But Mr. Brin was authoritative a abundant bigger point. Isn’t ability consistently good, and absolutely consistently more good than ignorance?"

Censorship of Google in China

Remembering his adolescence and his family's affidavit for abrogation the Soviet Union, he "agonized over Google’s accommodation to allay the antipathetic government of China by acceptance it to abridge chase agent results", but absitively that the Chinese would still be added good off than after accepting Google available.4 He explained his acumen to Fortune magazine:

"We acquainted that by accommodating there, and authoritative our casework added available, alike if not to the 100 percent that we alluringly would like, that it will be added good for Chinese web users, because ultimately they would get added information, admitting not absolutely all of it."17

On January 12, 2010, Google appear a ample cyber advance on its computers and accumulated basement that began a ages earlier, which included accessing abundant Gmail accounts and the annexation of Google's bookish property. After the advance was bent to accept originated in China, the aggregation declared that it would no best accede to abridge its chase agent in China and may avenue the country altogether. The Fresh York Times appear that "a primary ambition of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese animal rights activists, but that the advance additionally targeted 20 added ample companies in the finance, technology, media and actinic sectors."1819 It was after appear that the advance included "one of Google’s acme jewels, a countersign arrangement that controls admission by millions of users worldwide."20

In backward March, 2010, it clearly discontinued its China-based chase agent while befitting its uncensored Hong Kong armpit in operation. In a agnate move, breadth agent Go Daddy Inc. additionally told Congress it will be acid aback due to fresh Chinese requirements for arcane advice about their registrants.21 Speaking for Google, Brin declared during an interview, "One of the affidavit I am animated we are authoritative this move in China is that the China bearings was absolutely emboldening added countries to try and apparatus their own firewalls."21 During addition account with Spiegel, he added, "For us it has consistently been a altercation about how we can best action for artlessness on the Internet. We accept that this is the best affair that we can do for attention the attempt of the artlessness and abandon of advice on the Internet."22

While alone a few ample companies so far apprenticed their abutment for the move, abounding Internet "freedom proponents are auspicious the move," and it is "winning it acclaim in the U.S." from lawmakers.2123 Senator Byron Dorgan declared that "Google's accommodation is a able footfall in favor of abandon of announcement and information."24 And Congressman Bob Goodlatte said, "I acclaim Google for its adventuresome footfall to stop censoring chase after-effects on Google.cn. Google has fatigued a band in the beach and is animated a ablaze on the actual aphotic breadth of alone alternative restrictions in China."25 From the business perspective, abounding admit that the move is acceptable to affect Google's profits: "Google is activity to pay a abundant amount for its move, which is why it deserves acclaim for abnegation to abridge its account in China."26 The Fresh Republic adds that "Google seems to accept accustomed at the aforementioned articulation that was accessible to Andrei Sakharov: the one amid science and freedom," apropos to the move as "heroism."27

Awards and recognition

In November 2009, Forbes annual absitively Brin and Larry Page were the fifth best able bodies in the world.28 Beforehand that aforementioned year, in February, Brin was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, which is "among the accomplished able distinctions accorded to an architect ... and ceremoniousness those who accept fabricated outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice...". He was called specifically, "for administration in development of accelerated indexing and retrieval of accordant advice from the Apple Wide Web."29

In 2003, both Brin and Page accustomed an honorary MBA from IE Business School "for embodying the ambitious spirit and lending drive to the conception of fresh businesses...".30 And in 2004, they accustomed the Marconi Foundation Prize, the "Highest Award in Engineering", and were adopted Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University. "In announcement their selection, John Jay Iselin, the Foundation's president, congratulated the two men for their apparatus that has fundamentally afflicted the way advice is retrieved today." They abutting a "select core of 32 of the world's best affecting communications technology pioneers..."31

In their "Profiles" of Fellows, the National Science Foundation included a cardinal of beforehand awards:

"he has been a featured apostle at the Apple Economic Forum and the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. ... PC Annual has accepted Google of the Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines (1998) and awarded Google the Abstruse Excellence Award, for Innovation in Web Application Development in 1999. In 2000, Google becoming a Webby Award, a People's Voice Award for abstruse achievement, and in 2001, was awarded Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Best Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature at the Search Engine Watch Awards."32

According to Forbes he and Larry Page are currently angry as the 24th richest being in the apple with a claimed abundance of US$17.5 billion in 2010.

Other interests

Brin is alive on other, added claimed projects that ability above Google. For example, he and Page are aggravating to advice break the world’s activity and altitude problems at Google’s altruistic arm Google.org, which invests in the another activity industry to acquisition added sources of renewable energy. The aggregation acknowledges that its founders appetite "to break absolutely big problems application technology."34

In October 2010, for example, they invested in a above adopted wind ability development to abetment the East bank ability grid,35 which may eventually become the aboriginal "offshore wind farm" in the United States.36 A anniversary beforehand they alien a car that, with "artificial intelligence," can drive itself application video cameras and alarm sensors.34 In the future, drivers of cars with agnate sensors would accept beneath accidents. These safer cartage could accordingly be congenital lighter and crave beneath ammunition consumption.37

They are aggravating to get companies to actualize avant-garde solutions to accretion the world's activity supply.38 He is an broker in Tesla Motors, which has developed the Tesla Roadster, a 244-mile (393 km) ambit array electric vehicle.

Brin has appeared on television shows and abounding documentaries, including Charlie Rose, CNBC, and CNN. In 2004, he and Larry Page were called "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. In January 2005 he was nominated to be one of the World Economic Forum's "Young Global Leaders". He and Page are additionally the controlling producers of the 2007 blur Broken Arrows.

In June 2008, Brin invested $4.5 actor in Amplitude Adventures, the Virginia-based amplitude tourism company. His advance will serve as a drop for a catch on one of Amplitude Adventures' proposed flights in 2011. So far, Amplitude Adventures has beatific seven tourists into space.39

He and Page co-own a customized Boeing 767–200 and a Dornier Alpha Jet, and pay $1.4 actor a year to abode them and two Gulfstream V jets endemic by Google admiral at Moffett Federal Airfield. The aircraft accept had accurate accessories installed by NASA to acquiesce beginning abstracts to be calm in flight.4041

Brin is a affiliate of AmBAR, a networking alignment for Russian-speaking business professionals (both expatriates and immigrants) in the United States. He has fabricated abounding speaking appearances.