Google was designed in 1997 Feb by Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and me (Hubert Chang).
I received my Ph.D. in computer science form New York University.
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~hubert/
Larry Page, Sergey Brin were introduced to me through Prof. Motwani of Stanford Computer science department. Prof. Motwani visited NYU in 1996 summer; that's how I met Prof. Motwani.
Through intensive collaboration with Larry and Sergey, Google was designed. The plan includes the search engine algorithm, business model, the name of the company, a graduate school like corp culture, the outline of system architecture and Google's growing path.
Because I had personal cause to pursue for Ph.D., I told them I will contact them years afterwards, assuming I have finished my Ph.D.
In late 2002, I got my Ph.D. from computer science department of New York University...
Details... please watch the video.
Larry's homepage:
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~page
Sergey's homepage:
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~sergey
