SAT写作素材之扎克伯格

　　虽然说sat写作素材的收集整理对考生写作成绩的高低有很大影响，但是，不同的考生收集的素材难免会有重复的，而今天要给大家分享的SAT写作素材扎克伯格的优点是比较新，而且特别全。随便挑两句，和别人重复的可能性较低，以下给考生具体介绍。

　　Zuckerberg at the 37th G8 summit in 2011.

　　Born：Mark Elliot Zuckerberg

　　May 14, 1984

　　White Plains, New York, U.S.

　　Residence：Palo Alto, California, U.S.

　　Ethnicity：Jewish

　　Alma mater：Harvard University

　　Phillips Exeter Academy

　　Occupation：CEO of Facebook

　　Known for：Co-founding Facebook in 2004;

　　becoming worlds youngest

　　billionaire as of 2008

　　Net worth：

　　US$ 17.5 billion

　　Religion：None

　　Relatives：Randi, Donna and Arielle

　　Awards：TIME Person of the Year 2010

　　Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for co-creating the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chief executive. It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University. In 2010, Zuckerberg was named Time magazines Person of the Year. As of 2011, his personal wealth was estimated to be $17.5 billion making him one of the worlds youngest billionaires.

　　Personal life

　　Zuckerberg was born in 1984 in White Plains, New York to Karen, a psychiatrist, and Edward Zuckerberg,a dentist. He and his three sisters, Randi, Donna, and Arielle, were brought up in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Zuckerberg was raised Jewish and had his bar mitzvah when he turned 13; he has since described himself as an atheist.

　　At Ardsley High School, Zuckerberg had excelled in the classics before transferring to Phillips ExeterAcademy in his junior year, where he won prizes in science and classical studies and was a fencing star and captain of the fencing team. In college, he was known for reciting lines from epic poems such as The Iliad.

　　At a party put on by his fraternity during his sophomore year, Zuckerberg met Priscilla Chan, a Chinese-American fellow student originally from the Boston suburbs, and they began dating in 2003. In September 2010, Zuckerberg invited Chan, by then a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco, to move into his rented Palo Alto house. Zuckerberg studied Mandarin Chinese in preparation for the couples visit to China in December 2010.

　　On Zuckerbergs Facebook page, he listed his personal interests as openness, making things that help people connect and share whats important to them, revolutions, information flow, minimalism. Zuckerberg sees blue best because of redgreen colorblindness; blue is also Facebooks dominant color.

　　Software developer

　　Early years

　　Zuckerberg began using computers and writing software as a child in middle school. His father taught him Atari BASIC Programming in the 1990s, and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Newman calls him a prodigy, adding that it was tough to stay ahead of him. Zuckerberg also tooka graduate course in the subject at Mercy College near his home while he was still in high school. He enjoyed developing computer programs, especially communication tools and games. In one such program, since his father dental practice was operated from their home, he built a software program he called ZuckNet, which allowed all the computers between the house and dental office to communicate by pinging each other. It is considered a primitive version of AOLs Instant Messenger, which came out the following year.

　　According to writer Jose Antonio Vargas, some kids played computer games. Mark created them. Zuckerberg himself recalls this period: I had a bunch of friends who were artists. Theyd come over, draw stuff,and Id build a game out of it. However, notes Vargas, Zuckerberg was not a typical geek-klutz, as he later became captain of his prep school fencing team and earned a classics diploma. Napster co-founder SeanParker, a close friend, notes that Zuckerberg was really into Greek odysseys and all that stuff, recalling how he once quoted lines from the Roman epic poem Aeneid, by Virgil, during a Facebook product conference.

　　During Zuckerbergs high school years, under the company name Intelligent Media Group, he built a music player called the Synapse Media Player that used artificial intelligence to learn the users listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine. Microsoft and AOL tried to purchase Synapse and recruit Zuckerberg, but he chose instead to enroll at Harvard University in September 2002.