Earlier this year, the family of Google cofounder Sergey Brin donated $1 million to the University of Maryland for computer-science education.
This week, state leaders said they will match the donation through the clunkily named Maryland E-Nnovation Initiative, which is a program of the Maryland Department of Commerce that looks to spur private donations to state universities.
The donations will fund two endowed professorships in theoretical computer science, which tends toward the mathematical.
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