LARRY PAGE Biography
(Internet entrepreneur and computer scientist
Larry Page teamed with grad school Sergey Brain to launch the search engine
Google in 1998.)
He was born on
March 26, 1973 in East Lansing, Michigan, United States. Gloria´s Page son, a
programming teacher at the University of Michigan, and Carl V. Page, Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence teacher at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill and the University of Michigan, an authority on the field of
Artificial Intelligence. Although his mother is Jewish he received a secular
education and he doesn´t practise any religion.
When he was
two years old he began to attend a school that applied the famous Montessori
method. His interest in computers began when he was six years old and his
interest in technology when he was twelve years old. His youthful idol was
Nikola Tesla. He attended to the East Lansing High
School, after he was graduated with honours in the Michigan State University
with a degree in Computer Engineering. PhD in Computer Science at Stanford
University. The business School awarded him with an honorary master's degree in
Business Administration, and he was the first person to achieve a society Recent
Alumni Award engineering graduate at the University of Michigan.
Larry Page met
Sergey Brin at the orientation´s conferences for new students at Stanford
University. At first sight he did not get on with Sergey Brin, they seemed to
disagree on almost everything but soon they became friends and they started sharing ideas, especially his mathematical interest in the
World Wide Web. Together they wrote an article "The Anatomy of a
Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine".
Combining ideas
they started to fill their shared bedrooms with cheap computers, and they
started to check news search engines in the web. Their project grew quickly and
in 1996 they created BackRub, a Google´s predecessor search engine, based on
PageRank´s technology patented. The project showed to be an excellent search
engine, so they decided to give up the university and to employ their full time
to their project. They requested financial support to friends, teachers and
family for buying servers and for renting a garage in Menlo Park, California.
Afterwards, Sun
Microsystems gave to them a check with the amount of $100.000 on behalf of
Google Inc, but there was a problem because the company had not been created
yet. Finally they funded Google in 1998. Google was the last name because of
its similarity with the term GOGOL which in English is the number 10 to 100, in
reference with the amount of information they were trying to organize.
After one year
they had a budget of $25 millions, and they moved their offices to Googlepex,
current headquarters in Mountain View, California. In 2004 the company went to
the stock exchange and since then its shares have had a stratospheric growth.
Google is a
company with a market capitalization of hundreds of billions of dollars and one
of the most innovative companies in the world. Several times a year they update
their product, eliminating some of them and putting others new into service.
Over the years,
Google has gone from being a company focused on a search engine to cover a wide
spectrum of industries. They have presented cars that are driven by themselves, autonomous robots and even nanoparticles to identify
and to cure cancer.
Page was the
responsible for the company day to day; however Brin was the responsible for
the special projects. In January 2011, Google announced that Eric Schmidt would
take Page´s place in April, as executive director. On April 4, 2011 Page became
the Google´s official executive president. In 2014, Larry Page designated
Sundar Pichai as a Google product manager, in that way he could focus on others
projects and in the business.
Google INC., has
been awarded with many prizes. In 2004 they were awarded with the Marconi
Fellows, and Sergei Brin has spoken at several academic forums, business and
international technology, including the Wold Economic Forum and the Conference
on Technology Entertainment and Design.
On December 8,
2007 he got married in the Caribbean island of Necker (Richard Branson´s
property) with Lucinda (Lucy) Southworth, who has a degree in biomedical
sciences for the University of Pennsylvania and Oxford. The wedding has about
700 guests attended by aircraft fleets of taxis to bring the guests. They were
parents of two children, born in 2009 and 2011.
He suffered an
illness that affected his vocal cords. He was diagnosed with a vocal cord
paralysis after he suffered a cold a decade earlier and that caused that his
voice is rougher.
1.
What
tenses are used in the article?
Answer: The
article use Simple Past Tense
Proof= When he was two years old he began to attend a school that applied the
famous Montessori method. His interest in computers began when he was six years
old and his interest in technology when he was twelve years old. His youthful
idol was Nikola Tesla.
2.
Restate
one sentence in the article into gerund / to + infinitive
Answer:
they started
sharing ideas, especially his mathematical interest in the World Wide Web
they started to share ideas, especially his mathematical interest in the World
Wide Web
3.
Show
a use of personal pronouns or possessive pronouns or reflexive pronouns in the
article.
They have
presented cars that are driven by themselves, autonomous robots and
even nanoparticles to identify and to cure cancer.
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