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. 

Sergey Brin, Mastermind of Google


Hello once again audience! Today, I reveal one of the masterminds behind the reputable Google, Sergey Brin! Sergey Brin was born on August 21, 1973 Moscow, Russia. Even though he was born in Russia, he is a Jewish american computer scientist and mathematician. When Sergey was at the age of 6, he moved to the U.S from the Soviet Union to an unknown reason. As time went on, Sergey earned an undergraduate degree following his father and grand father on mathematics and computer science at the University of Maryland. After his graduation he moved to the University of Stanford to acquire his P.h.D on computer science. There, he met Larry Page with, whom he later became friends with. They crammed their dormitory room with cheap computers and applied Sergey's ''Data Mining'' system to build a search engine that surpassed all. The engine soon became popular among his schoolmates and soon, they stopped their P.h.D studies to continue the research on Google in a rented garage. Continuing the talk about Sergey and his life, he married a woman with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology with the name of Anne Wojcicki. With the interest in human health, he and his wife did research about humans and health. In 2008 his mother became diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, the disease is usually not genetic but he shared a gene with his mother that increases the chance of contracting it to 20%-80%. On a happier note, he and his wife created 23andMe, it's named 23andMe because of the 23 pairs of chromosomes in the normal human cell. 23andMe is a privately held genomics and biotechnology company that provides rapid genetic testing and compare their genetic makeup. That is my biography for Sergey Brin and next is my biography for Larry Page. Stay Tuned!


Introduction to Google!


File:Google’s First Production Server.jpgHello world! Today, i'd like to talk about the creators of the famous search engine Google. The two masterminds behind Google are two men whom i'll talk about briefly soon. Let's talk about Google first and then how it was created. With the help of the creators friend's and family's credit cards they took a big risk into this big project. Google began in January 1996 as a research project for the two creators when they were both P.h.D students in the University of Stanford in California. The search engines before Google's time ranked the pages by how many times it has been clicked, so the two theorized about a better system that analyzes the relation between websites. This new technology the two created was called PageRank. What PageRank did was that it took the information of websites and ranked it based on how important it was, the number of pages it had and how many times it linked back to the original site. With the influence of a popular search engine named RankDex, they decided to name the new search engine BackRub because the system checked backlinks to estimate the importance of the site. With time, BackRub was named Google because from a misspelled word googol. Googol is a number with one hundred zeros following the number one, meaning they wanted to provide people with the most information possible. Some also say that Google knows the meaning of life.