Meet Hubert Chang. Hubert Chang claims that as a NYU Ph.D student in 1997 he helped Larry Page and Sergey Brin create Google. Here is what he had to say three days ago on Vimeo:
Google truth, the truth of Google’s birth from googletruth on Vimeo.
Google was designed in 1997 Feb by Hubert Chang (me), Larry Page, and Sergey Brin. I received my Ph.D. from NYU in late 2002. cs.nyu.edu/~hubert/ Larry, Sergey 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: infolab.stanford.edu/~page Sergey’s homepage: www-db.stanford.edu/~sergey Hubert’s homepage: cs.nyu.edu/~hubert/
Followed by his video the next day with pictures and text added:
Larry Page, Sergey Brin, AND Hubert Chang created Google (the original) from googletruth on Vimeo.
So what do you think? Crazy guy or could he really have helped with the idea for Google? Even if he did, he admitted to walking away, so should he have any rights to what Google is today?
