Sergey Brin

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Name:	Sergey Brin
Age:	36 (b. 1974)

Industries:

Internet

2008 Compensation:

Roles:

Co-Founder, President - Technology; Board of Directors: Google Inc.

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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3/16/10:

Google's Riskier Than You Think

There's been plenty of controversy over the years about the insistence of Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) execs on splitting the company's shares into two voting classes, with the Class B shares of co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, and CEO Eric Schmidt, having ten times the voting power of the Class A ... - read more at The Money Times

tags: Google CEO Eric Schmidt Larry Page

3/16/10:

Nicole Kempton: Google's China Exit: When Business and Human ...

Rumors that Google may pull out of China has thrown the state of the Chinese Internet into sharp focus. It says much about the disconnect between the idealism of the Internet pioneers and the reality of how the Internet is utilized in undemocratic states. During the 1990s, we were told that the Internet ... - read more at Huffington Post

tags: Google YouTube Microsoft Yahoo Facebook

3/16/10:

Google misses China licence deadline

Search giant Google has yet to re-register as an internet content provider in ChinaGoogle missed a deadline to re-register as an "internet content provider" (ICP) in China last night, which observers say is a sign that it is preparing to shut down its search engine there.Google UK denied the reports, ... - read more at Guardian.co.uk

tags: Google google.cn Eric Schmidt outside.In

3/15/10:

Google and Apple

New York Times has an interesting article about the evolution of Google's relationship with Apple. If three years ago Google was an important partner for Apple, Android's launch and its growing popularity eroded the relationship. "In the last six months, Apple and Google have jousted over acquisitions, ... - read more at Google Operating System

tags: Apple Google Larry Page

3/15/10:

The Pirate Bay's Founder Likens P2P To Coke [The Pirate Bay]

At SXSW, The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde helmed a conference via Skype, where he likened P2P to Coca Cola, and The Pirate Bay to sugar. He also said he could make Sergey Brin "want to marry me." [TechRadar] More » - read more at Gizmodo

3/13/10:

Google vs. Apple Battle Gets Personal

The NY Times has a piece that has quite a bit of detail. It boils down to a portrayal of Steve Jobs as taking the competition as some kind of personal betrayal. A few reactions: There are two types of people in the mobile world--software people and cell phone people. Software people tend to get quite ... - read more at Benzinga

tags: Apple Google Steve Jobs Microsoft NY Times Qualcomm Larry Page

3/12/10:

Soviet-Born Brin Has Shaped Google's Stand on China

As a boy growing up in the Soviet Union, Sergey Brin witnessed the consequences of censorship. Now the Google co-founder is drawing on that experience in shaping the company's showdown with the Chinese government. - read more at Wall Street Journal - Technology

tags: Google

3/12/10:

Why no one cares about privacy anymore

Google co-founder Sergey Brin adores the company's social network called Google Buzz. We know this because an engineer working five feet from Brin used Google Buzz to say so. by Declan McCullagh CNET News - read more at ZDNet - Latest Headlines

tags: Google

3/11/10:

Rich Dude Who Backed New York Times Bumps Tech's Gates as World's ...

Microsoft (MSFT)MSFT) bigwig Bill Gates got hipchecked off the top perch as the richest man in the world by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim (pictured here), on Forbes annual list of the world's Richie Richs. Slim recently came to the rescue of the New York Times (NYT) a year ago, forking over $250 million ... - read more at All Things Digital

tags: Gates Dell Google Co Microsoft (MSFT) Oracle CEO Steve Ballmer Paul Allen Carlos Slim Larry Page Warren Buffett

3/11/10:

Steve Jobs #136 on Forbes World Billionaire List

Steve Jobs may be one of the most admired CEOs in the tech industry even if he's not the richest. Jobs ranked 136 — down from the 43rd spot in 2009 — in the annual Forbes list of billionaires, far behind Bill Gates (no. 2), Larry Ellison (6), Google founder Sergey Brin (24), Steve Ballmer ... - read more at Cult of Mac

tags: Steve Jobs Google Steve Ballmer Larry Ellison Bill Gates

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