Craig Silverstein Explained

Craig Silverstein
Birth Date:	1972 or 1973
Alma Mater:	Harvard University Stanford University
Spouse:	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. 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]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Google Milestones . Google, Inc. . September 28, 2010.
2. Web site: Craig Silverstein's website . https://web.archive.org/web/19991002122809/http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~csilvers/ . October 2, 1999 . Stanford University . October 12, 2010 . dead . mdy-all .
3. News: Kopytoff . Verne . Craig Silverstein grew a decade with Google . San Francisco Chronicle . Hearst Communications, Inc. . September 7, 2008 . October 12, 2010.
4. http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/article.php?article_id=8356 In Conversation With Craig Silverstein, Khan Academy
5. Web site: The 1993 World Champions: Harvard University . icpc.global.
6. Web site: Google's Very First Employee, Craig Silverstein Departs. Swisher. Kara. Kara Swisher. AllThingsD. 14 March 2015.
7. https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=286 givingpledge.org
8. http://www.momentmag.com/the-google-seder/ Moment Magazine: "The Google Seder" by Nadine Epstein