Happy Canada Day!
To celebrate this momentous milestone in our country's history, we're sharing 5 facts about Canada and the technology industry.
1. ROSS, the world's first artificially intelligent lawyer, was developed by a team at the University of Toronto and is being used by numerous law firms around the world.
2. The MaRS Discovery District in Toronto is one of the world’s largest urban innovation hubs and in 2015 launched LegalX to help build legal entrepreneurship and advance the future of law.
3. Ottawa (not Kitchener-Waterloo) is Canada's most technology intensive city with 8% of the city's employees working in high-tech firms.
4. Elon Musk, one of the world's most famous tech innovators and the mind behind PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla, is a Canadian citizen and attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
5. Uber recently hired Raquel Urtasun, a University of Toronto professor and the Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision, to lead a new ATG self-driving unit in Toronto, further validating Toronto as a global leader in AI.
As a company with deep Canadian roots, we are grateful to call this country home.
