Biography:Craig Silverstein
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Short description: Google's first employee
Craig Silverstein | |
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| Born | 1972 or 1973 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Stanford University |
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| Spouse(s) | Mary Obelnicki |
Craig Silverstein (born 1972 or 1973) is a software engineer and was the first person employed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Google, having studied for a PhD alongside them (though he dropped out and never earned his degree) at Stanford University.[1][2][3] He graduated from Harvard and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa.[4]
Biography
In 1993, he won ACM-ICPC programming contest as a member of Harvard University team.[5]
His PhD supervisor was Rajeev Motwani.[2] He served as Google’s director of technology. He resigned from the company in February 2012, to work at the Khan Academy.[6]
He and his wife, Mary Obelnicki, are signers of The Giving Pledge.[7][8]
References
- ↑ "Google Milestones". Google, Inc.. http://www.google.com/intl/en/corporate/history.html. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Craig Silverstein's website". Stanford University. Archived from the original on October 2, 1999. https://web.archive.org/web/19991002122809/http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~csilvers/. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
- ↑ Kopytoff, Verne (September 7, 2008). "Craig Silverstein grew a decade with Google". San Francisco Chronicle (Hearst Communications, Inc.). http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-09-07/news/17161124_1_larry-page-google-search-engine. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
- ↑ In Conversation With Craig Silverstein, Khan Academy
- ↑ "The 1993 World Champions: Harvard University". https://icpc.global/community/history-icpc-1993.
- ↑ Swisher, Kara. "Google's Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein Departs". AllThingsD. http://allthingsd.com/20120209/googles-very-first-employee-craig-silverstein-technically-no-3-leaving/. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- ↑ givingpledge.org
- ↑ Moment Magazine: "The Google Seder" by Nadine Epstein June 27, 2008 "Craig Silverstein, Google’s director of technology and first employee; and a former Google engineer, Ron Dolin, led the seders"
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