[Air-l] NSF, Science Communication, and Google
John Monberg
jmonberg at ku.edu
Wed May 19 10:57:22 PDT 2004
There has been a lot of media coverage about Google's recently
announced IPO. One aspect that received little attention is that Larry
Page and Sergei Brin, Google's founders, were supported as Stanford
graduate students through the NSF's Digital Libraries Initiative. I
can imagine that their experience in the program shaped the company's
ethos, which emphasized technical expertise and de-emphasized immediate
commercial returns, which has turned out to be a pretty profitable
approach.
Here's a link to some background.
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=71217
Regards,
John Monberg
More information about the Air-L
mailing list