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Ten-year-old girl is youngest ever Microsoft engineer?
ZDNet UK
July 18, 2005, 17:25 BST

Arfa Karim of Multan is the young lady who has officially become the youngest MCP in Pakistan. Karim, now aged 10, met with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates last week — an experience she later described as second only to visiting Disneyland.

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13-year old to address Linux conference
ZDNet Australia
February 02, 2005, 12:25 BST

Elizabeth, who has had a computer since she turned two, has been running Debian since the time she was nine. According to her bio on the conference speaker’s list, her installation of Debian GNU/Linux on a server before she had reached 10 years of age "proves that installing Debian really isn't very hard", although it should be noted that "Dad is around to answer questions" if trouble hits.

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