Editorial by Brian Darmody
Brian Darmody is an NASVF Board member and Associate Vice President for Research and Economic Development at the University of Maryland. He is a principal investigator for the University of Maryland’s EURECA partnership, funded by the U.S. Russia Foundation and other groups. He is the principal author of the Power of Place and Power of Innovation, two national policy papers written on behalf of the Association of University Research Parks (AURP).
The views he expresses here are his own, and do not reflect the views of any organization.
Do you know this person? His name is Sergey Brin. In the late 1970s, his family emigrated from Russia to the United State, his father becoming a math professor at the University of Maryland and his mother a researcher at nearby NASA-Goddard. He completed his computer science and math undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland, moved to Stanford for his PhD, worked on some university research projects, but became so distracted launching a start-up company, he never finished his doctorate. (But he did get his Master’s degree.)
That start up’s name? Google.
Had Sergey Brin stayed in Russia for his studies, could he have launched Google? Not likely, for two reasons.
To read the full, original article click on this link: ABRAHAM LINCOLN, RUSSIA AND THE US
