Personal Life
Hotz grew up in Glen Rock, New Jersey, the son of Marie Minichiello and George Hotz. He attended the Bergen County Academies, a magnet public high school. He was in AEDT (Academy for Engineering and Design Technology). Hotz is an alumnus of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth program.
Additionally, George Hotz attended the Rochester Institute of Technology for a short period of time. He started his major as a Biotechnology - Bioinformatics option major in August 2007, but withdrew from the institution soon after.
In March 2012, Hotz was booked and charged with felony marijuana possession in Sierra Blanca, Texas on his way to SXSW conference in Austin.
As of 2013, he is a sophomore at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science
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