Tuesday 11 December 2012

Larry Page, The last mastermind of Google

Hello audience! On a sad note, this may be my last blog mainly because this is for a project in my class and I never made a blog in my life before XD. So today, i'll talk about Larry Page, the partner of Sergey Brin and the co-founder of the famous Google. Larry Page was born on March 26, 1973 Lansing, Michigan. Larry invented PageRank ( Which I talked about on my blog about Google) the sorting system of Google. Larry attended the Okemos Montessori School ( Now called Montessori Radmoor) in 1975-1979 and graduated in East Lansing high school in 1991. Following his parents footsteps he earned his Bachelor of Computer Engineering degree in the University of Michigan. He later moved to the University of Stanford and earned his Master of Science degree in computer engineering. At the University of Michigan he built a inkjet printer out of LEGO bricks, served as the president of the Beta Epsilon chapter of the Eta Kappa Nu and a member of the Maize&Blue University of Michigan Solar Car team. At an early age of 6, his house was filled with computers and computer engineering books laying on the ground, it wasn't long before he was engrossed in computer science. In his elementary school, he was the first person to hand in an assignment from a word processor. Along the way, his brother taught him how to take things apart, it also wasn't long for him to take everything apart in the house to see how it worked. When he was 12, he knew that he wanted to start a company eventually. At the University of Stanford he enrolled in a program for P.h.D students in computer science. He soon created a program named BackRub, which was soon joined by Sergey Brin, another P.h.D student. Larry and Sergey both met at the orientation for the P.h.D program, Sergey who has been in the program for 2 years had to show the new students around the campus including Larry. Larry's invention ''BackRub'' used a certain algorithm that didn't meet his expectations, so he created a new program named PageRank. PageRank used a certain algorithm that made sense and was approved of Sergey and Larry. Time passed on and Larry got married to Lucinda Southworth, Lucinda is a research scientist and also the sister of the model Carrie Southworth. 

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