Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14th, 1984 in New York to dentist Edward Zuckerberg and psychiatrist Karen Kempner. He studied at the Ardsley High School, and the Philips Exeter Academy before college, where he was distinguished as a promising student.
It is said that Mark won prizes in maths, astronomy, physics and classical studies as a student, and was also fluent in languages including French, Hebrew, Latin and Ancient Greek.
He is known to have quoted lines from the Roman epic poem ‘Aeneid’ at Facebook product conference years later. He was the captain of the school fencing team too.
Mark’s acquaintance with computers was made when he was in middle school. He was taught the Atari BASIC programming at a very early stage, and was also given a tutor for computer studies. The tutor, David Newman, later said that Mark was a child prodigy.
While children played computer games, young Mark created them. He also designed computer programs, and communication tools.
One of them was the ‘ZuckNet’ which enabled all the computers between his house and dad’s dental office to communicate.
The synapse media player was yet another of Mark Zuckerberg’s creations. It was a music player that used machine learning to learn the user’s listening habits.
