Dunia IT kehilangan seorang lagi insan berbakat besar : Arfa Karim, 16, meninggal dunia pada 14 January 2012 akibat sawan dan kegagalan jantung untuk berfungsi...
Arfa mencipta nama pada 2005 apabila bertemu Bill Gates pada satu majlis dan diambil menjadi engineer Microsoft termuda dalam sejarah ketika berumur 9 tahun...menjadi kebanggaan warga Pakistan kerana bakat luar biasa beliau sehingga ramai menggelarnya "child prodigy".
Bill Gates menawarkan untuk membiayai kos rawatan Arfa ketika dimasukkan di hospital, dan mahu memindahkan Arfa dari hospital Pakistan ke US, namun tidak sempat kerana Arfa telah disahkan meninggal dunia ketika dalam rawatan.
The youngest Microsoft professional, Arfa Karim.
LAHORE: The youngest Microsoft professional, Arfa Karim passes away at the age of 16 in a Lahore hospital on Saturday, DawnNews reported.
Arfa fell desperately ill last month and doctors say she has suffered brain damage, leaving her in a coma at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Lahore.
She was suffering from idiopathic epilepsy seizures which led to brain damage.
The medical experts say the epilepsy can be caused by various infectious and non-infectious diseases but in idiopathic epilepsy no underlying disease of the brain or body can be identified in the early or short investigations.
Arfa became the youngest Microsoft professional after completing her MCP in 2004 at the age of only 9.
Upon completing her course, Microsoft owner Bill Gates invited her to visit the company’s headquarters in the US. Software Development Division Vice President Somasegar also acknowledged her achievement in his blog.
Arfa was studying at the Lahore Grammar School`s Paragon Campus for her A Levels. She also received numerous awards and gold medals from private and government institutions for her achievement.
She received the Fatima Jinnah Gold Medal in the field of science and technology in 2005, besides the Salaam Pakistan Youth Award.
She has also received President’s Award for Pride of Performance. She was invited to Microsoft Headquarters again in November 2006 as a part of the keynote session in the Tech-Ed Developers conference held in Barcelona.
Her funeral will be held at Cavalry Ground Lahore on Sunday, said Arfa’s father.
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p/s: Bila Malaysia nak ada 'prodigy' macam ini?
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