User:Amorrow/Afrah Shafquat

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Afrah Shafquat was, around 2004 and for about six months, the youngest Java Certified Programmer on Eoarth.

Early life and education

Shafquat was born in w:Karachi, Pakistan. Both her mother and father were licensed physicians there. Pakistan had a national program, to compete with India, for training Pakistanis in w:information technology and w:software engineering. Shafquat and her two sisters, Afsa and Isban enthusiastically joined the program and profoundly excelled in the milestones of accomplishment, receiving local and national press coverage as national heroes.

Shafquat attended MIT on a full scholarship and graduated with a BS in Biological Engineering.[1] She then worked at Cornell Univesity on bioinformatics.

User:Amorrow/Andrew William Morrow first encounter Shafquat on a Sun Microsystems forum about the Java programming language when Shafquat was 12 years old. They became fast friends and Shafquat told Morrow her home address. Morrow sent her a book about EJB that had on the back over a lengthy quote by her sister Afsa.

Career

Shafquat is currently a data scientist at Acorn Artifical Intelligence Labs in New York City.

Media

See also

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References

External links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/afrahshafquat/