World’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Arfa Karim Randhawa, passed away on Saturday

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Tearful farewell to child prodigy Arfa (Afzal Khan)

16 January 2012

ISLAMABAD - Funeral prayers for the world’s youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) Arfa Karim Randhawa, who passed away on Saturday after protracted illness, were held on Sunday in Lahore.

The prayers, held in Cavalry Ground, were attended by Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and her close family membersand hundreds of admirers. snip

She had suffered idiopathic epilepsy seizures which led to brain damage and was admitted in Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Lahore, in a coma in which state she remained till her death on Saturday night. During her illness she also had heart attack and died of cardiac arrest, her doctors said.

The genius prodigy shot to world fame becoming world’s youngest MCP at the age of 9 in 2004 was invited by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates to the US where she met her idol for 10 minutes. It was a dream come true and on way to the US she wrote a poem in praise of Gates.

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1. Sad article - R.I.P.

It reminds me of a time long time ago - during the time I was working for a computer company in the 1970s.
I really screwed up big time.
I was working for a company that put the first computers in pharmacies in Texas, I was the Director of Operations and also went out and trained the pharmacists how to use the software.
I got really burnt out because I became a 'workaholic' and when I resigned from the company I said that I never ever wanted to ever see another computer in my lifetime!
I stayed away from ALL computers until around the mid 1990s - and boy was that a HUGE mistake!!!