<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, hubert chang]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, hubert chang]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/hubertchang http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/hubertchang <![CDATA[Hubert Chang, not Al Gore, invented the Internet]]> When NYU Ph.D. student Hubert (Hung-Hsien) Chang wasn't busy inventing Google or visiting Disneyland and signing up for Google-related groups on Facebook, he was coming up with lots of crazy ideas. Cross-platform programming language Java? Chang. Open-source office productivity software OpenOffice? Chang. The semantic Web? DHTML? Tim Berners-Lee Chang. All this and more he tossed away to finish his Ph.D. at NYU, which he finally accomplished in late 2002, as he explained in the video. Or 2003, as he explained on his archived homepage, below.

Look, I get it, working on a dissertation can make you go crazy. That said, armed with his advanced degree, Chang should at least be able to get a job at Google answering customer-support calls or keeping an eye on toddlers at the Kinderplex.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5054143&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Larry, Sergey, and Hubert? NYU grad claims he invented Google]]> Google's tenth anniversary seems to have tweaked Hubert Chang into posting this video. He claims to have co-invented Google's PageRank formula, business model and more along with Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1997. But Chang says he chose to complete his Ph.D. at New York University instead of dropping out to found a startup. He also claims to have passed on a chance to put his name on a conference paper — again to remain focused on his Ph.D. thesis. By the time Chang got his sheepskin in 2002, he says, Page and Brin didn't respond to his enquiries to join the company. After the jump, a second, more produced video from Chang in which he gives his version of the Google creation myth.

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