2012年1月12日木曜日

The world-famous person in computer history

There are some people who contributed to development of computer science. Owing to their work, we can live a comfortable life. Today I will introduce such people.

Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page
Chart1: Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page
Summary
 Lawrence "Larry" Page (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur  and known as the co-founder of Google. Also, he is one of  the World's Billionaires for long years. As of 2011, his personal wealth is estimated to be $16.7 billion.


Business
 In 1998, he and Sergey Brin founded  Google, that is known by almost all people as the most famous Internet and software corporation. Google Internet search engine adopts Page Rank, that is a link algorithm, named after Larry Page. It is his main achievements.
 Before it has been developed, Internet search engines  was hard-to-use because past search engines couldn't return  proper results. Using another algorithm, it often returned the results including pages that are nothing to do with the search word.
 But Page Rank have changed this situation. By using eigenvalue and probability, it evaluates pages' quality so that we can get proper results, like a peer review of theses. Owing to Page Rank, it has been easy for us to find adequate information.

Early Life and Education
 In 1973, he was born in East Lansing, Michigan. Both his father and mother are computer science professors at Michigan State University. This may let him learn computer science. On his 6 years, he started to learn computer science.Then, he went to Michigan State University and specialized in Computer Engineering. Incidentally, while at the university, he created a ink jet printer made of Lego bricks . After graduated from the University, he went to graduate school of the Stanford University. He took time off school and founded Google.


References
http://biography.sophia-it.com/content/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/pag0bio-1
http://memorva.jp/ranking/forbes/forbes_world_billionaires_2011_world.php

 

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