Lawrence Page
(2004) Google
"Cited for the invention that has fundamentally changed the way information is retrieved today."
Presented by: Favio Roversi-Monaco, Chairman � Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna
Larry Page was Google's founding CEO and grew the company to more than 200 employees and profitability before moving into
his role as president, Products in April 2001. He continues to share responsibility for Google's day-to-day operations with
Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin.
The son of Michigan State University computer science professor Dr. Carl Victor Page, Page's love of computers began at age
six. While following in his father's footsteps in academics, Page became an honors graduate from the University of Michigan,
where he earned a bachelor of science degree in engineering, with a concentration on computer engineering. During his time in
Ann Arbor, Page served as president of the University's Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society and built a programmable plotter and inkjet
printer out of Lego.
While in the Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Page met Sergey Brin and together they developed and
ran Google, which began operating in 1998. Page went on leave from Stanford after earning his master's degree. He was granted
an honorary MBA by Instituto de Empresa and was the first recipient of the University of Michigan Alumni Society Recent
Engineering Graduate Award.
Page has been a speaker at such forums as the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference, The Wall Street Journal
Technology Summit, the World Economic Forum and the Commonwealth Club. He was named a World Economic Forum Global Leader
for Tomorrow in 2002 as well as a "Young Innovator Who Will Create the Future" by MIT's Technology Review magazine. Page
is a member of the National Advisory Committee (NAC) for the University of Michigan College of Engineering, has been
recognized as Research and Development Magazine's Innovator of the Year and was elected to the National Academy of
Engineering in 2004.
Bibliographies
Corporate History, Google
Publications
Profile, InfoWorld
Interview, San Francisco Chronicle
ABC Persons of the Week
Profile, BBC News
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine
Profile, San Francisco Business Times
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