Editing Sergey Brin (section)

==Early life and education==
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born on August 21, 1973, in Moscow in the [[Soviet Union]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/us/immigrants-who-made-america-great-cfc/index.html|title=Nine immigrants who helped make America great|last=Jimison|first=Robert|date=July 31, 2019|publisher=CNN|access-date=August 18, 2019|archive-date=August 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190818102346/https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/us/immigrants-who-made-america-great-cfc/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> to [[History of the Jews in Russia|Russian Jewish]] parents,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sergey-brin |title=Sergey Brin |access-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-date=March 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321094557/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sergey-brin |url-status=live }}</ref> Mikhail and Eugenia Brin (1948–2024), both graduates of [[Moscow State University]] (MSU).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rolnik |first1=Guy |title='I've Been Very Lucky in My Life' |url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4983416 |work=Haaretz |date=May 22, 2008 |access-date=March 10, 2020 |archive-date=November 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112103329/https://www.haaretz.com/1.4983416 |url-status=live }}</ref> His father is a retired mathematics professor at the [[University of Maryland, College Park|University of Maryland]], and his mother was a researcher at [[NASA]]'s [[Goddard Space Flight Center]].<ref name="Moment">{{cite journal|last=Malseed|first=Mark|date=February 2007|title=The Story of Sergey Brin|journal=[[Moment Magazine]]|url=http://www.oldsite.momentmag.net/moment/issues/2007/02/200702-BrinFeature.html| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130121055147/http://www.oldsite.momentmag.net/moment/issues/2007/02/200702-BrinFeature.html|archive-date=January 21, 2013}}</ref><ref>Smale, Will (April 30, 2004). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3666241.stm Profile: The Google founders] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210043647/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3666241.stm |date=December 10, 2017 }}, BBC News. Retrieved January 7, 2010.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-12-09 |title=Eugenia Brin, Longtime Supporter of Science, Performing Arts at UMD,… |url=https://today.umd.edu/eugenia-brin-longtime-supporter-of-science-and-performing-arts-at-umd-dies |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=Maryland Today |language=en}}</ref>

The Brin family lived in a three-room apartment in central Moscow, which they also shared with Sergey's paternal grandmother.<ref name=Moment/> In 1977, after his father returned from a mathematics conference in Warsaw, Poland, Mikhail Brin announced that it was time for the family to emigrate.<ref name="Moment"/> They formally applied for their [[exit visa]] in September 1978, and as a result, his father was "promptly fired". For related reasons, his mother had to leave her job. For the next eight months, without any steady income, they were forced to take on temporary jobs as they waited, afraid their request would be denied as it was for many [[refuseniks]]. In May 1979, they were granted their official exit visas and were allowed to leave the country.<ref name="Moment"/>

The Brin family lived in Vienna and Paris while Mikhail Brin secured a teaching position at the University of Maryland with help from [[Anatole Katok]]. During this time, the Brin family received support and assistance from the [[HIAS|Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society]]. They arrived in the United States on October 25, 1979.<ref name="Moment"/><ref name=hias>{{cite news |last1=Strom |first1=Stephanie |title=Billionaire Aids Charity That Aided Him |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/25donate.html |work=The New York Times |date=October 24, 2009 |access-date=October 31, 2018 |archive-date=October 31, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181031133141/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/25donate.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Brin attended elementary school at Paint Branch [[Montessori education|Montessori School]] in [[Adelphi, Maryland]], but he received further education at home; his father, a professor in the department of mathematics at the University of Maryland, encouraged him to learn mathematics and his family helped him retain his Russian-language skills. He attended [[Eleanor Roosevelt High School (Maryland)|Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Maryland]]. In September 1990, Brin enrolled in the University of Maryland, where he received his Bachelor of Science from the Department of Computer Science in 1993 with honors in computer science and mathematics at the age of 19.<ref name="resume">{{cite web|url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html|title=Resume|access-date=March 9, 2008|last=Brin|first=Sergey|date=January 7, 1997|archive-date=March 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080322000250/http://infolab.stanford.edu/~sergey/resume.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1993, he interned at [[Wolfram Research]], the developers of [[Wolfram Mathematica|Mathematica]].<ref name=resume/>

Brin began his graduate study in computer science at [[Stanford University]] on a [[NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program|graduate fellowship from the National Science Foundation]], receiving an M.S. in computer science in 1995.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Henderson |first1=Harry |title=Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology |date=2009 |publisher=Facts On File |isbn=978-0-8160-6382-6 |page=57 |edition=Revised}}</ref> {{As of|2008}}, he was on leave from his PhD studies at Stanford.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=534604&symbol=GOOG|title=Sergey Brin: Executive Profile & Biography|access-date=March 9, 2008|work=[[Business Week]]|quote=He is currently on leave from the PhD program in computer science at Stanford university...|archive-date=March 8, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090308131028/http://investing.businessweek.com/businessweek/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=534604&symbol=GOOG|url-status=dead}}</ref>