扎克伯格

馬克·扎克伯格是美國社交網站Facebook的創辦人，被人們冠以“蓋茨第二”的美譽。哈佛大學計算機和心理學專業輟學生，是2008年全球最年輕的單身巨富，也是歷來全球最年輕的自行創業億萬富豪。據悉，盡管扎克伯格擁有億萬身家，但他至今仍和女友生活在一套租來的住房里；為了能在2010年年底帶普莉希拉·陳到中國度假，扎克伯格每天早晨都跟家庭教師學說漢語。

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， he would. And he would build a site that would be even better than what the university had.” Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4， 2004. And on July 21， 2010， Zuckerberg reported that the number of the website members reached to 500 million.

Vanity Fair magazine named Zuckerberg number 1 on its 2010 list of the “most influential people of the Information Age”. Zuckerberg ranked number 23 in 2009. In 2010， Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in New Statesman’s annual survey of the world’s 50 most influential figures.

馬克·艾略特·扎克伯格是Facebook的創始人，他于1984年出生于紐約市。扎克伯格開始使用電腦是中學時期。他的父親在上世紀90年代教他BASIC Programming之后，聘請軟件研發者David Newman當他的家教。Newman曾說扎克伯格是一個神童，而且還說想保持走在扎克伯格前面是一件困難的事。扎克伯格高中時，已經在家里附近的Mercy College上額外的程序課。扎克伯格很喜歡程式設計，特別是溝通工具與游戲類。他還開發過名為ZuckNet的軟件程式，讓父親可以在家里和牙醫診所之間訊息交流。根據作家Jose Antonio Vargas所描述的：“扎克伯格創造孩子們的電腦游戲。”

在扎克伯格高中時代，他也創作了名為Synapse Media Player的音樂程式，并贏得了廣大學生的好評，微軟當時就已經想要招攬并訓練扎克伯格，不過扎克伯格仍選擇于2002年9月進入哈佛大學。在哈佛時代開始時，扎克伯格就被稱譽為是“程式神人”。二年級時他開發出名為CourseMatch的程式，很好地幫助了學生們選擇他們的課程團體。一段時間后，他又開發了另外一個不一樣的程式，名為Facemash，讓學生可以在一堆照片中選擇最佳外貌的人。……