Arfa Karim Randhawa (Urdu: ارفع کریم رندهاوا‎, 2 February 1995 – 14 January 2012) was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy, who in 2004 at the age of nine years became Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP),^[1] the youngest in the world until 2008.^[2][3][4] She was invited by Bill Gates to visit the Microsoft Headquarters in the USA.^[5] A science park in Lahore was named after her, the Arfa Software Technology Park.^[6]