Dan Dodge is a cocreator of the

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, with

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. They began the project while students at the

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in 1980. Dodge then moved to

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, a high-tech area outside

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, 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

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(CPU) in 1982. In 1998, Dodge became the 4th awardee of the J. W. Graham Medal, named in honor of

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an early influential

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at the University of Waterloo, and annually awarded to an influential alumnus of the University's faculty of

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

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'' magazine. Mr. Dodge holds a

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and was the

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of QNX Software Systems, a division of

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. In an earnings call on March 29, 2012, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins stated "Dan Dodge is now lackBerrys lead software architect and is responsible for driving both the QNX business and the

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platform vision." Dan Dodge announced his

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from QNX on 8 September 2015, effective at the end of the year. In late July 2016, it was reported that Dodge will join

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at the company's new Kanata location, assisting with Apple's automotive team with

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