Sergey Brin co-founded web-search giant Google Inc. in 1998 with fellow Stanford student Larry Page. A key innovation behind the company was their "PageRank" algorithm that calculated the relevance of a web page to the user's query based in part on the number of other pages that linked to it. Today, Brin directs Google’s special projects, developing Glass and driverless cars. Brin has a bachelor’s degree with honors in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park and a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. He has received the Marconi Prize, given to those who achieve advances in communications and information technology for the social, economic and cultural development of all humanity.