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Dan Dodge is a true pioneer of embedded systems technology. Together with business partner Gordon Bell, he created one of the world's first message-passing operating systems - the forerunner to the revolutionary QNX® Neutrino® microkernel RTOS.
To encourage and support embedded systems studies in post-secondary institutions, Mr. Dodge established the QNX-in-Education program, which offers colleges and universities around the world free software for classroom work and research projects. He also funded the first chair for computer science at the University of Waterloo in 1998.
Mr. Dodge is a passionate advocate of standards for the embedded industry, and in 2001 was invited to sit as a founding steward of the Eclipse consortium, an open-source software initiative. Mr. Dodge has garnered several tributes, including the prestigious J.W. Graham medal in Computing and Innovation from the University of Waterloo, an honor shared by a select group of industry luminaries that includes Bill Reeves (Pixar Studios) and Jim Mitchell (Sun Microsystems). In 2002 Dodge and Bell were acclaimed as Heroes of Manufacturing by Fortune magazine.
Mr. Dodge holds a Master's degree in mathematics.
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