After some research on all of the artist, I've decided to choose Mark Zuckerberg as the icon that is related to my major which is Interactive Media Design. Since he is a programmer and also a Web designer for the world most well-known online social site, Facebook, I think he is the right person for this topic that I'm doing right now.
The story behind Mark Zuckerberg's life:
Mark Zuckerberg is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur and also the co-founder and CEO of the social-networking website Facebook, as well as one of the world's youngest billionaires.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg or know as Mark Zuckerberg was born on May 14, 1984 in White Plains, New York. Mark's never really exposed to any of the tech stuff since both of his parents are more to the medic side. His father, Edward Zuckerberg, ran a dental practice attached to the family's home. Whereas his mother, Karen, worked as a psychiatrist.
Zuckerberg started to developed the interest in computer at an early age. When he was at 12 years old, he already invented some sort of communicating program called "Zucknet" by using Atari BASIC for his father use in the dental office. This program is use for the receptionist so that they could inform him of a new patient without yelling across the room. "Zucknet" has also being use in their house as a communicating device. At an early age, Zuckerberg is already a 'game programmer' where he would create a game just for fun when he is around with his friend. The reason for him to create the game is that "I had a bunch of friends who were artists," he said. "They'd come over, draw stuff, and I'd build a game out of it."
Zuckerberg later studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, an exclusive preparatory school in New Hampshire. He is doing a great job in his study where he excelled in literature, earning a diploma in classics. But yet he still fascinated by computer, and continue working on creating a new program during his free time. While he is sill in school, he has invented another cool creation of him called, "Synapse" which is a early version of a music software Pandora. After that invention of him started to be known by people, big company such as AOL and Microsoft offers Zuckerberg in buying his sofware and hire him to be apart of their team even before he graduate but then he declined their offers.
Harvard year
After graduating from Exeter in 2002, Zuckerberg enrolled at Harvard University. By the second year Zuckerberg in the Ivy League, he had gained a reputation software developer in campus. During that time, Zuckerberg has created another program for the institute which he gave the named, :CourseMatch". This program is to help the student to choose their courses based on the course selection on the other students.
In 2003, once summer evening when Zuckerberg suffered from insomnia in dormitory room, he started to think of a new creation called "FaceMash". By doing that, Zuckerberg hacked the database of Harvard where all of the student's profile picture are stored in and randomly select two student from the campus and allowed the users to vote on which one is more attractive. The program received a good respond from almost all of the students in Harvard, but was later shut down by the school administration after it was deemed inappropriate.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Astrumpeople.com, (2015). Mark Zuckerberg Biography: Success Story of Facebook Founder and CEO. [online] Available at: http://astrumpeople.com/mark-zuckerberg-biography-success-story-of-facebook-founder-and-ceo/ [Accessed 19 Jun. 2015].
2. Biography.com, (2015). About Mark Zuckerberg. [online] Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/mark-zuckerberg-507402#time-at-harvard [Accessed 19 Jun. 2015].
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