英語名人堂：馬克·扎克伯格

馬克·艾略特·扎克伯格(Mark Elliot Zuckerberg)，1984年05月14日生于美國紐約州白原市。社交網(wǎng)站Facebook的創(chuàng)始人兼首席執(zhí)行官[1] ，被人們冠以“第二蓋茨”的美譽。哈佛大學計算機和心理學專業(yè)輟學生。據(jù)《福布斯》雜志保守估計，馬克·扎克伯格擁有135億美元身家，是2008年全球最年輕的巨富，也是歷來全球最年輕的自行創(chuàng)業(yè)億萬富豪。

2015年10月21日，扎克伯格造訪清華大學，并于22日晚做客清華大學經(jīng)濟管理學院“顧問委員走進清華經(jīng)管課堂”，全程用中文作了演講。

2016年3月19日，中共中央政治局常委、中央書記處書記劉云山在北京會見了扎克伯格。

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on May the 14th, 1984. He is the creator of the social media site Facebook. He was a star student at school, winning prizes in astronomy, maths and physics. He also excelled in Classical studies. He studied Psychology and Computer Science at Harvard University, which is where he created Facebook. His invention led to his becoming Time magazine’s Person Of The Year for 2010.

Zuckerberg excelled in everything he did in his youth. He was captain of the school fencing team,spoke many languages and was a highly skilled computer programmer. While other kids played computer games, he designed them. He created his first network while in high school to connect all of the computers in his father’s dental surgery. He also built a media player which attracted the interest of Microsoft and AOL.

Zuckerberg started at Harvard in September 2002. In his first year, he created Facemash, a Facebook predecessor, that let students select the college’s best looking people from a selection of photos. He launched Facebook from his Harvard room in February 2004. It was the start of a rollercoaster ride that would connect half a billion people worldwide and make him the world’s youngest billionaire.

Mark Zuckerberg is now one of the most influential people on the planet. He has dined with the president of the USA and regularly attends global economic summits and technology forums. He stated: "The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open." In 2010, Zuckerberg signed a promise called the "Giving Pledge", in which he promised to donate at least half of his life wealth to charity.