Kanata, Ontario
Dan Dodge is the cocreator of the QNX real-time operating system, with Gordon Bell. They began the project while students at the University of Waterloo in 1980. He then moved to Kanata, Ontario, a high-tech area outside 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.