Sergey Brin biography, list of Sergey Brin inventions

Sergey Brin - Famous Inventor

Inventor

: Sergey Brin

Born

: 21-August-1973

Country

: Russia

Education

: Eleanor Roosevelt High School, University of Maryland, College Park, Stanford University

Occupation

: American computer scientist and Internet Entrepreneur

About Inventor

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, together with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the world's most profitable Internet companies.According to Hurun Global Rich List 2015 he is jointly one of three people listed as 18th richest in the world (21 overall) with a net worth of US$30 billion.

Brin in World's Billionaires

Google cofounder Sergey Brin has never been richer. The company's stock surged to an all-time high in July 2015 after new Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat promised to rein in expenses and after the company reported growth in mobile search and strength at YouTube. For his part, Brin has been trying to convince shareholders that spending on moonshots is worth it. In a June 2015 letter filed with the SEC prior to Google's annual shareholder meeting, Brin defended the ambitious, uncertain projects that his Google X division oversees. Besides the ill-fated Google Glass, the projects include self-driving cars, which hit public roads for the first time last summer, and contact lenses that can monitor glucose levels in people with diabetes. In May 2015, Brin quietly finalized his divorce with Anne Wojcicki, CEO of genetic testing firm 23andMe, nearly two years after his affair with a young Google manager made headlines. The son of two academics, Brin emigrated to the U.S. from Moscow when he was six. He founded Google with Larry Page in 1998, when they were both computer science Ph.D. students at Stanford University.

Brin's Early Life

The son of a Soviet mathematician economist, Brin and his family emigrated to the United States to escape Jewish persecution in 1979. After receiving his degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park, Brin entered Stanford University, where he met Larry Page. Both students were completing doctorates in computer science.

Google

As a research project at Stanford University, Brin and Page created a search engine that listed results according to the popularity of the pages, after concluding that the most popular result would often be the most useful. They called the search engine Google after the mathematical term "googol," which is a 1 followed by 100 zeros, to reflect their mission to organize the immense amount of information available on the Web.

After raising $1 million from family, friends and other investors, the pair launched the company in 1998. Headquartered in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Google held its initial public offering in August 2004, making Brin and Page billionaires. Google has since become the world's most popular search engine, receiving an average of 5.9 billion searches per day in 2013.

Success and Expansion

In 2006, Google purchased the most popular website for user-submitted streaming videos, YouTube, for $1.65 billion in stock.

In March 2013, Brin was ranked No. 21 on Forbes' 2013 "Billionaires" list, and No. 14 among U.S. billionaires who made the list. According to Forbes.com, as of September 2013, Brin's net worth was $24.4 billion. As director of special projects at Google, Brin shared the company's day-to-day responsibilities with Page, who served as Google's CEO, and Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of the company.

On August 10, 2015, Brin and Page announced that Google and its divisions were being restructured under the umbrella of a new parent company called Alphabet, with Brin and Page serving as Alphabet's respective president and CEO.

Awards Received by Inventor

Between (2002-2009)

In 2002, Brin, along with Larry Page, was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100, as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.In 2003, both Brin and Page received an honorary MBA from IE Business School "for embodying the entrepreneurial spirit and lending momentum to the creation of new businesses...".In 2004, they received the Marconi Foundation Prize, the "Highest Award in Engineering", and were elected Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University. "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."

In 2003, Brin and Page were both Award Recipients and National Finalists for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award

In 2004, Brin received the Academy of Achievement's Golden Plate Award with Larry Page at a ceremony in Chicago, Illinois.

2009 and at present

In November 2009, Forbes decided Brin and Page were the fifth most powerful people in the world.Earlier that same year, in February, Brin was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, which is "among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer ... [and] honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice...". He was selected specifically, "for leadership in development of rapid indexing and retrieval of relevant information from the World Wide Web".In their "Profiles" of Fellows, the National Science Foundation included a number of earlier awards:

he was a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum and the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. ... PC Magazine has praised Google in 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.

According to Forbes, he is the 20th richest person in the world with a personal wealth of US$30 billion as of June 2014.