If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

1 billion. org Google's philanthropic arm promotes the adoption of plug-in hybrid electric cars[clarification needed] and other alternative energy investments. John Battelle co-founder of Wired magazine wrote that Page had reasoned that the "entire Web was loosely based on the premise of citation – after all what is a link but a citation? If he could devise a method to count and qualify each backlink on the Web as Page puts it 'the Web would become a more valuable place'.

Lawrence "Larry" Page (born March 26 1973) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who with Sergey Brin is best known as the co-founder of Google. On April 4 2011 he took on the role of chief executive officer of Google replacing Eric Schmidt. As of 2012[update] his personal wealth is estimated to be $20.