Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to visit Harvard

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO/President of Facebook,

Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO/President of Facebook, is making his first official visit to Harvard since he was a student in 2004.

Social networking guru will visit on Monday, November 11/7 to recruit students
M ark Zuckerberg will visit Harvard Monday to recruit students for jobs and internships at Facebook. (Interested students should the Harvard Office of Career Services.)

Zuckerberg, along with Facebook Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer, will meet with more than 200 computer science students at Farkas Hall (the New College Theater) for a discussion moderated by computer science lecturer David J. Malan.

It is Zuckerberg’s first official visit to Harvard since leaving in 2004 to launch Facebook, the world’s leading social media network.

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While on campus, Zuckerberg will also meet with Harvard officials.

There will be an informal press availability at 4:30 p.m. Interested media should Harvard Public Affairs & for credentials.

Facebook is one of many student- or faculty-based engineering and technology companies that got their start at Harvard.
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  • Electronic Arts, Digital Chocolate (games)
  • EOS Photonics (quantum cascade lasers)
  • Newsle (social media/media)
  • Genzyme (biotech)
  • GnuBio (DNA sequencing)
  • Rumford Baking Powder (culinary/chemistry)
  • iLike (web/social media)
  • Locately (consumer location analytics)
  • Microsoft (software)
  • OkCupid (dating website)
  • OPOWER (software/energy efficiency)
  • Paperless Post (online stationery)
  • Raindance (microfluidics)
  • Scribd (web/social media)
  • SiEnergy (fuel cells/alt. energy)
  • SiOnyx (black silicon/alt. energy)
  • Zappos (online retail)