扎克伯格——第二个“比尔·盖茨”.docVIP

扎克伯格——第二个“比尔·盖茨”编 者 注 马克·扎克伯格是美国社交网站Facebook的创办人，被人们冠以“盖茨第二”的美誉。哈佛大学计算机和心理学专业辍学生，是2008年全球最年轻的单身巨富，也是历来全球最年轻的自行创业亿万富豪。据悉，尽管扎克伯格拥有亿万身家，但他至今仍和女友生活在一套租来的住房里；为了能在2010年年底带普莉希拉·陈到中国度假，扎克伯格每天早晨都跟家庭教师学说汉语。 Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, was born in 1984 in New York. Zuckerberg began using computers when he was in middle school. His father taught him the BASIC Programming in the 1990s and later hired David Newman, an private computer program teacher, to develop his skills. Newman called him a “genius”. The teacher even said that it was tough to stay ahead of him. When he was in high school, he also took an extra class in the subject at Mercy College near his home. Zuckerberg enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communicating tools and games. In one such program, he built a software program “ZuckNet” to help his father stay in touch with his dentists. According to writer Jose Antonio Vargas, “Mark created the computer games that kids played.” During Zuckerberg?s high school years, he built a music player called Synapse Media Player and was widely used by many high school students. By then, Zuckerberg had won a good fame and Microsoft tried to employed him, but he chose to enter Harvard University in September 2002. By the time he began classes at Harvard, he had already been regarded as a genius in programming. During his second year in Harvard, he wrote a program called CourseMatch to help students with their selection in groups. A short time later, he created a different program called Facemash that let students make choice of the best looking face of some photos and there would be a ranking. The racing lasts about a weekend but was shut down on Monday Morning. For it was so popular that it was out of Harvard?s control. Then students were prevent from accessing the website. Zuckerberg?s roommates Hasit explaned that Zuckerberg built the site just for fun. Hasit remembered, “Mark decided that if the university won?t do something about it, h