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Early life and education

Larry Page was born in Lansing, Michigan. 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.

Gloria Page, his mother, is Jewish but he was raised without religion.

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. 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 Fall 1994, 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 processor." 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".

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 graph. His supervisor Terry Winograd encouraged him to

pursue this idea, which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got".

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). 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.

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

Page at the European Parliament in June 17, 2009

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. Southworth is a research scientist and sister of actress and

model Carrie Southworth. 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 (393 km) range battery

electric vehicle. 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."

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...." 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...." 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. 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.

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.