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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg : A Of A Jewish Family

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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born into a Jewish family on May 14th, 1984 in the suburbs of New York. He was the second born of four and was the only boy. Zuckerberg’s parents, Edward and Karen, did well financially. Karen was a psychiatrist and Edward was a dentist with his own Dental Practice next door to their home. Zuckerberg was already interested in programming by the time he reached elementary school and received his first computer at the age of 10. Zuckerberg’s father began teaching him Atari basic programming when he was 12 years old and Zuckerberg took that knowledge to create a messenger that he named, “ZuckNet”. This messenger connected his computer to the dental office computer and the receptionist was able to transfer a message to Edward to notify him when a patient arrived to the office. Zuckerberg admired coding on the computer and he not only developed communication tools but he also developed games from his friends’ drawings. Zuckerberg did this as a hobby but his father saw more potential and proceeded to hire David Newman, a computer tutor, who gave Zuckerberg private lessons. Zuckerberg was the stereotypical “nerd” as a child, he had a Star Wars themed bar mitzvah, he enjoyed fencing, and he programmed computers in his spare time. High school came and Zuckerberg wrote an artificially intelligent media player Synapse for MP3-playlists, this device studied the preferences of a user and was able to generate an entirely new playlist from guessing what the user

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