Jaron Lanier Parents: Who Are Jaron Lanier Mom & Dad?

Jaron Lanier was born in New York City and raised in Mesilla, New Mexico. His parents were Jewish; his mother was a Nazi concentration camp survivor from Vienna and his father’s family had emigrated from Ukraine to escape the pogroms.

When Jaron was nine years old, his mother was killed in a car accident. He lived in tents for an extended period with his father before embarking on a seven-year project to build a geodesic dome home that he helped design.

At the age of 13, Jaron convinced the New Mexico State University to let him enrol. At NMSU, he took graduate-level courses; he received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study mathematical notation, which led him to learn computer programming.

Lanier also attended art school in New York during his time but returned to New Mexico and worked as an assistant to a midwife.