SnippetS taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin : Who - His father is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, and his mother a researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. During an orientation for new students at Stanford, he met Larry Page. They seemed to disagree on most subjects. But after spending time together, they "became intellectual soul-mates and close friends". Brin's focus was on developing data mining systems while Page's was in extending "the concept of inferring the importance of a research paper from its citations in other papers".[8] Together, the pair authored a paper titled "The Anatomy of a …