Montreal software firm adds artificial intelligence to services -- and name

When Basil Bouraropoulos hired Carolina Bessega for a three-month internship, he didn't know that the new intern, who had just graduated from a CEGEP computer-programming course, was a former physics professor who would change the focus of his company and become one of its top executives. Bessega started her career in Venezuela. There, she earned a PhD studying the birth of stars before teaching at a university and heading a research lab. But as the political and economic situation in her home country deteriorated, she decided to immigrate to Montreal. She had read that one of the best ways to enter the local job market was to go through a college program that included an internship, she said, so she enrolled in a computer programming analyst course.