Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Sergey Brin


Born : August 21 1973

BackGround:

Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born in Moscow, in the Soviet Union to a Jewish family.

Brin received further education at home by his father who is professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Maryland.

Occupation:

Brin began his graduate study in Computer Science at Stanford University on a graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation. He expressed interest in the Internet very early on in his studies at Stanford. He also wrote software to ease the process of putting scientific papers often written in TeX, a text-processing language, into HTML form, as well as a website for film ratings.

Brin currently holds the position of President of Technology at Google and has a net worth estimated at $18.5 billion as of March 9, 2007, making him the 26th richest person in the world and the 5th richest person in the United States together with Larry Page. He is also the fourth-youngest billionaire in the world.


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