About Craig Silverstein
Born 1972. Craig Silverstein is a computer scientist.
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. He graduated from Harvard and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa.
Biography Attended Eastside High School, in Gainesville, Florida.
In 1993, he won ACM-ICPC programming contest as a member of Harvard University team.
His PhD supervisor was Rajeev Motwani.
He and his wife, Mary Obelnicki, are signers of The Giving Pledge.
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Google's first employee
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Craig Silverstein was born in 1972.
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Craig Silverstein is a computer scientist.
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