Indian girl M. Lavinashree and Macedonian boy Marko Calasan are among the word’s youngest computer geniuses, who could pass the Microsoft Certified Professional Test with very high scores.

M. Lavinashree

Born in rural Tamilnadu, India, M. Lavinashree is now the world’s youngest Red Hat Certified Engineer after passing the Microsoft Certified Professional test. Her parents found out her incredible talent when she was just a kid.

When she was one year and a half, the girl could accurately dictate the alphabet letters as well as learn national symbols, songs, Indian personalities, shapes, fruits and many other things.

At three, Lavinashree won the Limca Book of Records (Indian equivalent to the Guinness Book of Records) for her photographic memory of reciting 1,330 Thirukural couplets (Thirukural is a Tamil poem written by a sage, over 2,000 years ago).

M. Lavinashree passed the Microsoft Certified Professional test with a score of 842 out of 1,000 and the Red Hat OS with a score of 178.1 out of 200

Marko Calasan

Born in Skopje, Macedonia, Marko Calasan becomes the youngest IT professional to pass the Microsoft’s MCSE exam at the age of nine and is often claimed to be the Mozart of computers by many other people. Marko likes reading IT books, joining IT forums and discussing high level computing issues instead of reading comics or playing computing games.

When Marko was 2, he learned reading and writing

He can speak three languages

Marko Calasan is among the word’s youngest computer geniuses

Jake Essman

During the competition for young hackers to build new ideas and products called TechCrunch Disrupt’s Hackathon in New York, fourteen-year-old Jake Essman might be the name remembered most because he was the youngest hacker. Jake teamed with his fellow engineers Jesse Leone, William Li and Feliks Beygel to create buyby, a shopping search engine, which helps consumers find locations of their needed products at a store as well as the stores that sell products nearby their locations.

Jake began learning coding at the age of ten and considered it as a hobby

Alex Miller

At just 12 years old, Alex Miller received a full $ 3000 in cheque from Mozilla after he spotted a major security bug in the world’s second most popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox. Alex was called “a tech detective” by CBS News and “the youngest to find such a bug” by Mozilla’s Brandon Sterne.

Alex spends much time reading books related to IT and engineering. He likes playing volleyball and guitar

Michael Calce

MafiaBoy was the nickname of a Canadian high school student Michael Calce, who launched a number of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites including Yahoo!, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN. Five years later, he wrote a column on computer security topics for the Francophone newspaper Le Journal de Montréal. In the autumn of 2008, Calce teaming with journalist Craig Silverman announced a book called “Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It’s Still Broken”.

Michael Calce’s book generally got positive reviews and earned him international fame

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