Named for the inventor of wireless communication, and administered by his grandson, the Marconi Award was given to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Columbia University.
"Sergey Brin and Larry Page developed the Google search engine to better organize unprecedented amounts of information, efficiently respond to hundreds of millions of daily online queries, instantaneously return relevant results and reach users from around the world. These two talented men have brought a sense of order to the enormous scale of the World Wide Web," according to Guglielmo Marconi's grandson and Foundation chairman, Francesco Paresce Marconi.
