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Dan Dodge

Canadian businessman

Dan Dodge is a cocreator of the QNX microkernel real-time operating system, with Gordon Bell. They began the project while students at the University of Waterloo in 1980.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Dan Dodge (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

About

Dodge then moved to Kanata, Ontario, a high-tech area inside Ottawa, to start Quantum Software Systems. It was later renamed QNX Software Systems to avoid confusion with a hard drive manufacturer. The first commercial version of QNX was released for the Intel 8088 central processing unit (CPU) in 1982.

In 1998, Dodge became the fourth awardee of the J. W. Graham Medal, named in honor of Wes Graham an early influential professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, and annually awarded to an influential alumnus of the University's faculty of mathematics.

In 2002, Dodge and Bell were acclaimed as Heroes of Manufacturing by Fortune magazine.

Mr. Dodge holds a master's degree in mathematics and was the chief executive officer of QNX Software Systems, a division of BlackBerry Limited. In an earnings call on March 29, 2012, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins stated "Dan Dodge is now [BlackBerry]'s lead software architect and is responsible for driving both the QNX business and the BlackBerry 10 platform vision."

From Wikipedia’s article on Dan Dodge, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUniversity of Waterloo3

Career

Occupation: engineer.5

  • Date not recordedFounded QNX Software Systems4

Awards

  • 1998J.W. Graham Medal6

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