Google founders awarded Marconi honours
24 September 2004
Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have been named the 2004 Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University.
The search engine pair, who met as students at Stanford University, join an elite list of 32 of the world's most influential communications technology pioneers.
"Sergey Brin and Larry Page developed the Google search engine to better organize unprecedented amounts of information, efficiently respond to hundreds of millions of daily online queries, instantaneously return relevant results and reach users from around the world. These two talented men have brought a sense of order to the enormous scale of the World Wide Web," said Guglielmo Marconi's grandson and Foundation chairman, Francesco Paresce Marconi.
Brin and Page will be presented with their awards and a $100,000 honorarium on October 8th at the Foundation's 30th anniversary celebration in Bologna, Italy. However, the award's organisers revealed that Brin and Page "will donate their award money to the Fellows Fund at the Marconi Foundation".
Other Marconi Fellows include Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet; Robert Gallager, creator of advanced communications codes; and Tim Berners-Lee, architect of the World Wide Web.
The honour named for Guglielmo Marconi, 1909 recipient of the Nobel Prize for pioneering wireless transmissions, has been handed out since 1975.
Google was developed by Brin and Page in 1995 and has become the world's leading search engine.
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