Larry Page

Lawrence "Larry" Page (born March 26th, 1973) is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. On April 4, 2011, he took on the role of chief executive officer of Google, replacing Eric Schmidt. , his personal wealth is estimated to be $18.7 billion. He is the inventor of PageRank, which became the foundation of Google's search ranking algorithm.http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ow-Sh/Page-Larry-and-Brin-Sergey.html#b, Notable Biographies Together, Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company's stake. 
== Early life and education==
Larry Page was born in Lansing, Michigan.Stross, Randall. Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan to Organize Everything We Know, Simon & Schuster (2008) p. 75.Brandt, Richard L. Inside Larry and Sergey's Brain, Penguin (2009). His father, Carl Page, earned a Ph.D. in computer science in 1965 when the field was in its infancy, and is considered a "pioneer in computer science and artificial intelligence." Both he and Page's mother were computer science professors at Michigan State University.Smale, Will. "Profile: The Google founders" BBC, April 30, 2004http://www.cse.msu.edu/endowment/carl_page.php Gloria Page, his mother, is Jewish but he was raised without religion.Malseed, Mark (February 2007). The Story of Sergey Brin Momentmag.Com Retrieved (2011-06-06).
Page attended the Okemos Montessori School (now called Montessori Radmoor) in Okemos, Michigan from 1975 to 1979, and graduated from East Lansing High School in 1991."Google Chooses Michigan for Expansion,"Office of the Governor, State of Michigan, July 11, 2006[retrieved March 6, 2010] He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the University of Michigan with honors and a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University. While at the University of Michigan, "Page created an inkjet printer made of Lego bricks" (actually a line plotter), served as the president of the Eta Kappa Nu in and was a member of the 1993 "Maize & Blue" University of Michigan Solar Car team. 
 
During an interview, Page recalled his childhood, noting that his house "was usually a mess, with computers and Popular Science magazines all over the place". His attraction to computers started when he was six years old when he got to "play with the stuff lying around". He became the "first kid in his elementary school to turn in an assignment from a word His older brother also taught him to take things apart, and before long he was taking "everything in his house apart to see how it worked". He said that "from a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became really interested in technology...and business . . . probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually".Scott, Virginia. Google: Corporations That Changed the World, Greenwood Publishing Group (2008)
After enrolling for a Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Larry Page was in search of a dissertation theme and considered exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge His supervisor Terry Winograd encouraged him to pursue this idea, which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got".The best advice I ever got (Fortune, April 2008) Page then focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, considering the number and nature of such backlinks to be valuable information about that page (with the role of citations in academic publishing in mind).Battelle, John. "The Birth of Google." Wired Magazine. August 2005. In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin, a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student.
John Battelle, co-founder of Wired magazine, wrote of Page that he had reasoned that the "entire Web was loosely based on the premise of citation – after all, what is a link but a citation? If he could devise a method to count and qualify each backlink on the Web, as Page puts it 'the Web would become a more valuable place'." Battelle further described how Page and Brin began working together on the project:
:"At the time Page conceived of BackRub, the Web comprised an estimated 10 million documents, with an untold number of links between them. The computing resources required to crawl such a beast were well beyond the usual bounds of a student project. Unaware of exactly what he was getting into, Page began building out his crawler.
:"The idea's complexity and scale lured Brin to the job. A polymath who had jumped from project to project without settling on a thesis topic, he found the premise behind BackRub fascinating. "I talked to lots of research groups" around the school, Brin recalls, "and this was the most exciting project, both because it tackled the Web, which represents human knowledge, and because I liked Larry".
Brin and Page originally met in March 1995, during a spring orientation of new computer Ph.D. candidates. Page, who had already been in the program for two years, was assigned to show some students, including Brin, around campus, and they later became good friends.Moschovitis Group. The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO (2005) 
To convert the backlink data gathered by BackRub's web crawler into a measure of importance for a given web page, Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm, and realized that it could be used to build a search engine far superior to existing ones. It relied on a new kind of technology that analyzed the relevance of the back links that connected one Web page to another. In August 1996, the initial version of Google was made available, still on the Stanford University Web site.
== Business==
In 1998, Brin and Page founded Google, Inc. Page ran Google as co-president along with Brin until 2001 when they hired Eric Schmidt as Chairman and CEO of Google. In January 2011 Google announced that Page would replace Schmidt as CEO in April the same year. Both Page and Brin earn an annual compensation of one dollar.
On April 4, 2011, Page officially became the chief executive of Google, while Schmidt stepped down to become executive chairman.
== Personal life==
Page married Lucinda Southworth at Richard Branson's Caribbean island, Necker Island in 2007.Google founder Larry Page to marry, Reuters. Southworth is a research scientist and sister of actress and model Carrie Southworth.McCarthy, Megan. "President Bush, Clintons to meet at Googler wedding?" ValleyWag.com December 7, 2007.Coleridge, Daniel R. "Night Shift's Model MD." SOAPnet.com. July 16, 2008. Retrieved September 10, 2008.Google Co-Founder Page to Wed, The Associated Press. They have one child.
== Other interests==
Page is an active investor in alternative energy companies, such as Tesla Motors, which developed the Tesla Roadster, a 244 mile on range battery electric vehicle. SiliconBeat: Tesla Motors New Electric Sports Cars. He continues to be committed to renewable energy technology, and with the help of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, promotes the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric cars and other alternative energy investments.
Brin and Page are the executive producers of the 2007 film Broken Arrows.
== Awards and recognition==
PC Magazine has praised Google as among 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."National Science Foundation, Fellow Profiles.
In 2002, Page, along with Sergey Brin, 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...."Brin and Page Awarded MBAs, Press Release, Sept. 9, 2003 And 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." They joined a "select cadre of 32 of the world's most influential communications technology pioneers...."Brin and Page Receive Marconi Foundation's Highest Honor, Press Release, Sept. 23, 2004 
He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004.
In 2005, Brin and Page were elected Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.Academy Elects 225th Class of Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members In 2002 the World Economic Forum named Page a Global Leader for Tomorrow and in 2004 the X PRIZE chose Page as a trustee for their board.Google Corporate Information: Management: Larry Page 
In 2004, Page and Brin were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. Page received an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan in 2009 during graduation commencement ceremonies.
In 2011, he was ranked 24th on the Forbes list of billionaires and as the 11th richest person in the United States.
== References==
== External links==
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* Google Corporate Information: Management
* America's Best Leaders
* Profile at BBC News
* Larry Page's Alumni Profile Composite
* Channel 4 News: "Google's Vision", May 23, 2006
* On the Origins of Google
* Why you should ignore VCs, Larry Page speaks at Stanford
* Why you should ignore experience, Experience is (sometimes) overrated.
* San Francisco Chronicle, Google Co-Founder's Search Ends
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