Mark Spencer, a 2000 computer science and software engineering graduate, was recently named a recipient of one of the university’s 2012 Young Alumni Achievement Awards. The award, sponsored by the Office of Alumni Affairs, was created in 2011 to recognize extraordinary accomplishments by members of the Auburn family who are 40 years old and younger. Spencer is the chairman and chief technology officer of Digium, the leading open source telecommunication provider in the world. He began his first start-up company, Linux Support Services, while he was still an Auburn student,  exercising his engineering and entrepreneurial expertise at a young age. But it wasn’t his first time in business. He wrote a grading program that he sold to his eighth grade teacher for $5.

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