A copy of an article titled, "Formal structure for specifying the content and quality of the electronic health record" by H. Dominic Covvey, David Zitner, Daniel M. Berry, Donald Cowan, and Michael Shepherd. This article was likely a conference paper presented at the 11th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering held in Monterey Bay, California between September 8-12, 2003.

Three copies of an article titled, "Future directions in data communications for post-secondary education" by Donald Cowan. The article was published in CIPS Review, May/June 1988, pages 10-11.

Handwritten notes by Donald Cowan related to generalized Moore graphs. These notes were created following a discussion Donald Cowan had with E.F. Moore at the University of Wisconsin on April 5, 1974.

Slides featuring portraits of James Wesley Graham standing in front of a computer.

Copies of articles and papers accumulated by Donald Cowan related to graphics including:

• 1. Blinn, James F. (1979). Raster Graphics. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pages 150-156.

• 2. Shoup, Richard G. (1979). Colour table animation. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pages 8-11.

• 3. Beatty, John C. (February 19, 1982). American national standard functional specification of the programmer's minimal interface to graphics (working paper). 49 pages.

• 4. Bono, Peter R., José L. Encarnação, F. Robert A. Hopgood, & Paul J.W. ten Hagen. (July 1982). GKS - the first graphics standard. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pages 9-22.

• 5. Beatty, John C. (1983?). A tutorial on raster graphics and colour.

Research materials created and accumulated by Donald Cowan related to graphs. Includes notes on matrix diagrams, a note titled, "some thoughts on heuristics for drawing 3-valent graphs," a note on attempts to construct graphs using Stanton's proposal, computer printouts of edge matrix, distance matrix, added vertex - edge correspondence, delta matrix, and matching pairs of new vertices.

Research materials created and accumulated by Donald Cowan related to graphs and network research. Includes notes and diagrams as well as one letter and attachment from Frank Allaire, University of Manitoba, to Donald Cowan regarding a project on the maximal number of disjoint circuits of a graph. Also contains copies of the following articles and papers:

• 1. Tutte, W.T. (January 1960). A non-hamilton graph. Canadian Math Bulletin, volume 3, (number 1), pages 1-5.

• 2. Hoffman, A.J. and R.R. Singleton. (November 1960). On Moore graphics with diameters 2 and 3. IBM Journal.

• 3. Liu, C.L. (January 1, 1972). Topics in combinatorial mathematics. Mathematical Association of America.

• 4. Van Voorhis, David C. (1972). Toward a lower bound for sorting networks. Published in R.E. Miller and J.W. Thatcher, eds, The Complexity of Computer Computations, pages 119-129.

• 5. Cerf, V.G., D.D. Cowan, R.C. Mullin & R.G. Stanton. (June 1973) The generalized Petersen graph. 93 pages.

• 6. Cerf, V.G., D.D. Cowan, R.C. Mullin & R.G. Stanton. (August 1973). Construction of the generalized Moore graph on 20 vertices. 12 pages.

• 7. Cerf, V.G., D.D. Cowan, R.C. Mullin & R.G. Stanton. (1975). Topological design considerations in computer communications networks. 18 pages.

• 8. James, L.O. (Undated). A combinatorial proof that the Moore (7, 2) graph is unique. 8 pages.

A high school brochure published by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo in 1971. The brochure provides information about the university, the Faculty of Mathematics, departments and programmes in the faculty, careers in mathematics, the co-operative plan, and student information. This brochure was likely distributed to prospective students in high school.

One negative featuring a group portrait of a hockey team.

Slides featuring photographs of various IBM equipment as well as unidentified people using computer equipment. Some of the photographs appear to have been taken inside the Red Room in the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring photographs of the IBM 1620 Model I, Monroe calculator, typewriter, and an unidentified computer.

A booklet titled, "IBM academic partners for higher education" published by Academic Information Systems (ACIS). In the booklet, Donald Cowan is listed as an IBM Consulting Scholar. A short biographical paragraph and picture of Donald Cowan is included in the booklet on page 7. According to the booklet, "IBM Consulting Scholars are practicing academic professionals whose affiliations are with education, engineering, English, physical sciences, medicine, and other disciplines...They are available to visit your campus. As independent consultants to ACIS they also provide important advice on directions that IBM and ACIS should take with respect to programs and product offerings." Also includes one pamphlet titled, "IBM Consulting Scholar Program," published by ACIS in 1990.

Slides featuring photographs of IBM computer equipment at the University of Waterloo.

Material related to Donald Cowan's participation in the IBM Education Executive Conference held in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida between April 5-7, 1982. Includes correspondence, airplane tickets, hotel receipts, conference program, list of travel expenses, memoranda, a settlement claim, and a short abstract of Donald Cowan's presentation. Also includes one group portrait likely of the attendees of the IBM Asia/Pacific Education Executive Conference held in Tokyo, Japan in August 1986.

A manual titled, "Instructor's manual to accompany the textbook: an introduction to COBOL with WATBOL - a structured programming approach" by Donald Cowan and B. J. Rowe. The text is one hundred and sixteen pages.

Material created and accumulated by Donald Cowan related to the International Bar Association Cambridge Conference held at the Garden House Hotel in Cambridge, Ontario between September 9-11, 1987. Includes a case study titled, "High tech and dispute resolution: arbitration or other methods" prepared by C. Ian Kyer and Donald Cowan. Also contains a document with biographies and working papers as well as related correspondence.

Audio cassettes with recordings of interviews Donald Cowan likely participated in recounting the history of computer science at the University of Waterloo. One cassette is a recording of a group interview. These interviews may have taken place as part of the 25th anniversary of computer science at the University of Waterloo in 1992. It is not clear who is serving as the interviewer on any of the tapes.

Slides featuring images of a keyboard and commands possibly used in a presentation about computer keyboards.

Slides featuring images of text that were used during a presentation about WATBOL.

Slides featuring text, diagrams, illustrations and photographs that are likely duplicates of slides found in other files in the fonds.

Correspondence sent and received by Donald Cowan regarding letters of recommendation as well as confirmations of enrolment and coursework for students.

Slides featuring images of text and diagrams that were used during a presentation likely titled, "Local area network." The slides are numbered 0 to 41. Slide number 37 is not included in this file.

Slides featuring text and diagrams that were used during a presentation likely titled, "Local area network." The slides are numbered 0 to 40. Slide number 37 is not included in this file.

Loose pages of a photograph album with various photographs and corresponding captions glued to to the pages. The photographs feature the IBM System 360 Model 44, the IBM 2260 display terminal, keypunched cards, a card reader, the Calcomp tape unit, the console panel and typewriter, auxiliary storage devices, tape drives, disk drives, storage drum, data cell, printer, and Red Room in the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo.

Material created and accumulated by Donald Cowan related to articles, papers, and reports that he was writing, co-authoring, or reviewing. Includes manuscripts, notes, correspondence, computer printouts, copies of articles, and other related items.

A copy of a document titled, "Math 132B notes: linking and loading" by T. Gornall and L.D. Rogers. It is possible this document was used by students and instructors as part of coursework at the University of Waterloo.

A copy of, "Math ties : UW Faculty of Mathematics alumni newsletter," (v.12, n.1). Donald Cowan's retirement announcement is included on page 3 of this issue.

Slides featuring images of text outlining merging, grouping and different types of sorting that were likely used during a lecture. Two slides feature photographs of IBM computer equipment, possibly the IBM 7040.

A typed manuscript, "Methods for the visual display of linear graphs : a discussion" by Donald Cowan. The manuscript is twelve pages.

Slides featuring images of text, diagrams and graphics that were used during a presentation likely titled, "Micro computer networks for education at the University of Waterloo." The diagrams were created by Peter J. Ponzo, Professor, Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo.

Workshop notes from a three day course titled, "Microcomputers - a comprehensive introduction." The notes were published by WATCOM Publications.

A copy of an article titled, "Minimal sequences with permutation subsequences" by Donald Cowan, Ralph G. Stanton and J.A. Bates. The article was published in the Congressus Numerantium VIII Proceedings of the Fourth Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing March 5-8, 1973, pages 151-162.

Correspondence written and received by Donald Cowan.

Material created or accumulated by Donald Cowan during his participation in the National Research Council of Canada's Grant Selection Committee for Computing and Information Science. Includes correspondence, grant committee records, a schedule of meetings, an application for an operating grant, and applications for grants from the National Research Council of Canada.

Material created or accumulated by Donald Cowan during his participation in the National Research Council of Canada's Grant Selection Committee for Computing and Information Science. Includes a list of major equipment requests, a schedule of meetings, a list of grant selection committees and members, correspondence, a list of conference grants, notes, a note regarding computing costs, a copy of a page from the University of Waterloo grant subsidiary ledger, copies of National Research Council applications, memoranda, and summaries of requested grants.

Material related to National Research Council grants awarded to Donald Cowan between 1976 and 1978. Includes dot matrix printouts of financial statements for research funds awarded to Donald Cowan, a notification of decision, and a memorandum regarding National Research Council announcement of grants and increased stipends.

Material created or accumulated by Donald Cowan during his participation in the National Research Council of Canada's Grant Selection Committee for Computing and Information Science. Includes correspondence, memoranda, an agenda, and lists of approved grants.

Dot matrix printouts of financial statements for grants received by Donald Cowan from the National Research Council of Canada. File also includes a copy of the publication, "Awards to university staff 1975" created by the National Research Council of Canada, a blank application for a conference grant, copies of University of Waterloo grant subsidiary ledger pages, a bilingual NATO Research Grants Programme pamphlet (1974), machine shop service forms, and related correspondence.

Slides featuring images of text, diagrams and graphics that were used during a presentation likely titled, "Need for a network." Twelve slides are numbered 25-36. The other twelve slides are duplicate copies. The diagrams were created by Peter J. Ponzo, Professor, Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo.

A copy of a proposal titled, "Negotiated development grant proposal, research in computational tools for mathematics" submitted by W.F. Forbes, Dean, Faculty of Mathematics, and Donald Cowan, Chairman, Department of Applied Analysis and Computer Science, to the National Research Council of Canada. File also includes notes, and a related item of correspondence to Dr. H.E. Petch (President pro tem, University of Waterloo) from B.A. Gingras (Director, National Research Council of Canada).

Materials created and accumulated by Donald Cowan related to network research. Includes diagrams, notes, copies of articles, and computer printouts. The contents of this file were originally housed in a binder divided by the tabs: Program, Papers, Network Cost, Tribinary, and Conjectures. Also includes a copy of Electronics & Communications (April 1971).

Slides featuring text and diagrams used during a presentation given by Paul Dirksen likely titled, "Networking IBM personal computers at University of Waterloo."

A photocopy of a proof for an article titled, "Networks for education at the University of Waterloo" by Donald Cowan, S. Fenton, James Wesley Graham, and T.M. Stepien. The article was published in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, volume 15, (issue 5), pages 313-327, in October 1988.

Two copies of an article titled, "Note on a "square" functional equation" by Donald Cowan and Ralph G. Stanton. The article was published in SIAM Review, volume 12 (number 2), pages 277-279.

A spiral-bound notebook that includes handwritten notes by Donald Cowan about meetings, conferences and lectures he attended as well as various research topics including local area networks, LANs, databases, cartesian products and joins, and much more. Also includes loose papers with handwritten notes, a pamphlet for WATCAT (University of Waterloo Library's online catalogue), and two floppy disks (5¼-inch format) that were tucked inside the front cover of the notebook. It is unclear what information may be available on the floppy disks.

A copy of a report titled, "NRC negotiated development grant committee, review of proposal to support research in computer systems." The report was prepared by the National Research Council Committee and presented at a meeting on Wednesday, January 29, 1969. Also includes an agenda for the meeting.

Photographs of offices spaces that may have been used by Donald Cowan.

Two copies of a report titled, "On the concept of modules in programming systems" by Donald Cowan as well as C.J. Lucena and A. von Staa (Departamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). The report was published by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo as Research Report CS-76-05 in January 1976. The report is thirty-nine pages.

Slides featuring photographs of an event called OUCC likely held at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Five pamphlets accumulated by Donald Cowan including:

1. Computing Centre. University of Waterloo 1968-1969.

2. University of Waterloo. Faculty of Mathematics. Graduate Brochure. 1969.

3. University of Waterloo. Computer Science Bulletin 1969-1970.

4. Courses and workshops in top-down design and structured programming (using COBOL and PL/1) [1975?]

5. CIPS [Canadian Information Processing Society] professional development series. Waterloo, ON. June 4-6, 1981.

Draft copies and notes related to various papers Donald Cowan was in the progressing writing with other authors. Includes material related to the following papers:

• 1. Cerf, V.G., D.D. Cowan, R.C. Mullin, and R.G. Stanton. The generalized (Tutte) Petersen graph." 100 pages (corrected draft, photocopy).

• 2. Cerf, V.G., D.D. Cowan, R.C. Mullin, and R.G. Stanton. (1975). Topological design considerations in computer communication networks. 23 pages (draft, photocopy).

• 3. Cerf, V.G., D.D. Cowan, R.C. Mullin, and R.G. Stanton. The growth of network cost as a function of network size. 71 pages (corrected draft, photocopy).

Material relating to the activities and interests of Donald Cowan, apart from his career at the University of Waterloo. This includes a paper written on the CANDU Reactor transfer functions, a WATCOM annual report, and the Canada's Technology Triangle presentation cover.

Slides featuring images of text, diagrams and illustrations used during a presentation likely titled, "Personal work station at the University of Waterloo." Also includes one slide featuring a photograph of students working at computer stations. Several of the slides are duplicated.

Slides featuring images of text and illustrations used during a presentation likely titled, "Portability details." The presentation may have discussed the WSL compiler. Includes triplicates of two slides.

Slides featuring portraits of Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, and an unknown individual.

Four press clippings related to Donald Cowan, the University of Waterloo Math Society, the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, and the Data Processing Management Association. The press clippings were clipped from several newspapers including the Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Toronto Daily Star, and North Bay Nugget.

Press clippings (originals and photocopies) concerning staff in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, the computer industry in Waterloo, and the Computer Museum of Canada. Also includes a copy of UW News titled, "The Waterloo Story," and a document titled, "The Computer Systems Group," which outlines the history of the group at the University.

Correspondence sent and received by Donald Cowan pertaining to various topics including conferences, textbooks, papers, articles, equipment, sabbatical leave, and benefits. Also contains a report titled, "Some options for a universities computer network," notes, and ephemera.

Copies of various publications accumulated by Donald Cowan including:

• 1. Lucena, Carlos J.P., Tarcisio H.C. Pequeno. (1978?). A view of the program derivation process based on incompletely defined data types : a case study.

• 2. Brown, K.S., M.K. Clayton, & R.J. Mackay. Some examples which abuse statistical practices from "Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics (with apologies to Disraeli). The Grand Valley Mathematics Association.

• 3. Haddad, Ramsey W., Donald E. Knuth. (June 1985). A programming and problem-solving seminar. Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, 103 pages.

• 4. DiMarco, Chrysanne, Mary Ellen Foster. (2001). The design and implementation of a document tailoring system. Computational Linguistics, pages 1-30.

• 5. Lucena, Carlos, Viviane Silva. (2004). From a conceptual framework for agents and objects to a multi-agent system modeling language. 46 pages.

Printed items written or co-authored by Donald Cowan that were published in various journals, conference proceedings or as separate reports.

Research materials created and accumulated by Donald Cowan related to Ramsey theory. Includes published papers, articles, conference papers and copies of unpublished papers relating to Ramsey theory and in particular, Ramsey theory for graphs. Items include:

• 1. Harary, Frank. (July 31, 1970). Covering and packaging in graphs, I. Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences 175, pages 198-205.

• 2. Wilkov, R.S. (December 11, 1970). Reliability considerations in computer network design. Mathematical Sciences Department, IBM, Thomas J. Watson Research Center (RC 3180).

• 3. Chvátal, Václav and Frank Harary. (1972). Generalized Ramsey theory for graphs, III. Small off-diagonal numbers. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, volume 41, (number 2), pages 335-345.

• 4. Chvátal, Václav and Frank Harary. (April 1972). Generalized Ramsey theory for graphs, II. Small diagonal numbers. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, volume 32, (number 2), pages 389-394.

• 5. Chvátal, Vaclav and Frank Harary. (May 1972). Generalized Ramsey theory for graphs. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, volume 78, (number 3), pages 423-426.

• 6. Chvátal, V. and F. Harary. (1973). Generalized Ramsey theory for graphs, I. Diagonal numbers. Periodica Mathematica Hungarica, volume 3 (number 1-2), pages 115-124.

• 7. Harary, Frank. (June 19, 1973). A survey of generalized Ramsey theory. 12 pages.

• 8. Hoffman, A.J. (January 18, 1974). Eigenvalue of graphs. Mathematical Sciences Department, IBM Watson Research Center (RC 4688).

• 9. Hoffman, Alan J. and John Howard Smith. (May 20, 1974). On the spectral radii of topologically equivalent graphs. Mathematical Sciences Department, IBM Watson Research Center (RC 4851).

• 10. Hoffman, A.J. (June 13, 1974). Applications of Ramsey style theorems to eigenvalue of graphs. Mathematical Sciences Department, IBM Watson Research Center (RC 4882).

• 11. Thulasiraman, K and P. Karivaratharajan. (December 1974). K-sets of a graph and vulnerability of communication nets. The Matrix and Tensor Quarterly, pages 63-66.

• 12. Harary, Frank. (1975). The foremost open problems in generalized Ramsey theory. Proceedings of the Fifth British Combinatorial Conference, pages 269-282.

• 13. Harary, Frank and Pavol Hell. (1975). Generalized Ramsey theory for graphs V. The Ramsey number of a digraph. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, volume 6, pages 75-182.

• 14. Pearce. A.R. (1975). Bibliography on algorithms for shortest path, shortest spanning tree, and related circuit routing problems (1956-1974). Networks, volume 5, pages 129-149.

• 15. Thulasiraman, K and P. Karivaratharajan. (March 1975). K-sets of a graph and vulnerability of communication nets. The Matrix and Tensor Quarterly, pages 77-86.

• 16. Hoffman, A.J. (March 15, 1976). On signed graphs and gramians. Mathematical Sciences Department, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center (RC 5905).

• 17. Duke, Richard A. and Frank Harary. (1976). Generalized Ramsey theory VI: Ramsey numbers for small plexes. The Journal of The Australian Mathematical Society, volume 4, number 12, pages 400-410.

• 18. Burr, Stefan A. and Frank Harary. (1977). The Ramsey number of many stars and one triangle. ARS Combinatoria, volume 4, pages 119-122.

• 19. Harary, Frank. Generalized Ramsey theory for graphs XI: which numbers are graphical? 13 pages.

• 20. Harary, Frank. Generalized Ramsey theory XII: achievement and avoidance games on finite geometries and configurations. 10 pages.

• 21. Harary, Frank and Pavol Hell. Corrections: generalized Ramsey theory for graphs V. L.M.S. Bulletin, 1 page.

A handwritten copy of a presentation titled, "Recent design experience with multiple process structuring" delivered by Doug Dyment at the University of Waterloo. This item is the author's presentation copy that was given to Donald Cowan.

Slides featuring photographs of the Red Room and other computer labs in the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring photographs of the Red Room in the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo.

A photograph of the Red Room in the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo taken on May 3, 1982. This photograph is a reproduction of an image from a file in the Graphic Services fonds titled, "View of Red Room, Computer Centre," reference code 82-05-04. A link to file 82-05-04 is available in the related materials note.

Slides featuring photographs of the Red Room in the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring photographs of unidentified individuals working with computer equipment that are likely reproduced from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection and the Graphic Services fonds. Includes a portrait of Paul Dirksen.

Material created and accumulated by Donald Cowan for research purposes on various topics including automorphisms, data directed design, the fig-FOURTH implementation project, generalized Moore graphs, graphics, networks, Ramsey Theory, and more. Includes copies of articles and papers, correspondence, notes, diagrams, computer printouts, overhead transparencies, and other items.

A hardcover notebook titled, Research November 23, 1990 #1, that includes handwritten notes by Donald Cowan about meetings and discussions with several people and organizations including WATCOM and IBM, workshops, conferences and presentations as well as various research topics including user interfaces, the design of an ADV for a menu, the design of the shell, application frameworks, and much more.

Seminar notices, memoranda, and programmes documenting seminars and special events at the University of Waterloo that were accumulated by Donald Cowan.

A typed manuscript (final draft, photocopy) titled, "Sequential optimization methods for determining the zeros of polynomials" by Gerald Berman and Donald D. Cowan. The manuscript is twenty-five pages. This paper was presented at the Fifth National Conference of the Computer Society of Canada in May 1966.

A document titled, "Solutions to Critical Path Method problems," that primarily contains diagrams. It is likely this document was used by students and instructors as part of their coursework at the University of Waterloo.

A publication titled, "Solutions to the problems in : an introduction to COBOL with WATBOL" by Donald Cowan, J.A. Derosie, V.J. Watts, and T.A. Wilkinson. The publication is one hundred and sixteen pages.

Two copies of an article titled, "Some results on path numbers" by Donald Cowan, Ralph G. Stanton, and L.O. James. One copy is a final draft and the other is an offprint. The article was published in the Proceedings of the First Louisiana Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, 1970, pages 112-135.

A copy of an article titled, "Some results on tree numbers" by Donald Cowan, Ralph G. Stanton and L.O. James. The article was published in the Proceedings of the Second Louisiana Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, March 8-11, 1971, pages 317-330.

Two typed manuscripts titled, "Some thoughts on the construction of programs - a data-directed approach" by Donald Cowan and Carlos J. P. Lucena, Departamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. One manuscript is a draft (photocopy) with annotations and is seventeen pages. The second manuscript is a master copy (photocopy) and is five pages.

A copy of an article titled, "Some unique extremal graphs" by Donald Cowan, V.G. Cerf, R.C. Mullin, and Ralph G. Stanton. The article was published in Ars Combinatoria, volume 1, June 1976, pages 119-157.

Slides featuring images of text, diagrams, graphs and equations likely used during a lecture about sorting.

Slides featuring images of text, diagrams and equations likely used during a lecture about sorting.

Slides featuring various images and diagrams related to academic services and systems and experimental-control activities. It is likely that these slides were used as teaching aids by Donald Cowan during class instruction at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring various images and text related to the compiler WATBOL. It is likely that these slides were used as teaching aids by Donald Cowan during class instruction at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring various text and diagrams related to computer memory. It is likely that these slides were used as teaching aids by Donald Cowan during class instruction at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring various text and diagrams related to computer networking. It is likely that these slides were used as teaching aids by Donald Cowan during class instruction at the University of Waterloo. A note on the original slide box read, "[Gembro] slides for 25th."

Slides featuring various text with commands for a computer program. It is likely that these slides were used as teaching aids by Donald Cowan during class instruction at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring various text with commands for a computer program. It is likely that these slides were used as teaching aids by Donald Cowan during class instruction at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring various images and diagrams used in a presentation titled, "Networking IBM personal computers at University of Waterloo," delivered by Paul Dirksen. Some slides are duplicated.

Slides featuring various images and diagrams related to personal computing, microprocessors, and microcomputers. Two of the slides feature the Red Room inside the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo. It is likely that these slides were used as teaching aids by Donald Cowan during class instruction at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring various text and diagrams related to sequential circuits. It is likely that these slides were used as teaching aids by Donald Cowan during class instruction at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring various images and diagrams possibly related to the University of Waterloo, especially its Computer Science program and future direction. It is likely that these slides were used as teaching aids by Donald Cowan during class instruction at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring various images and diagrams related to users, applications, and systems. It is likely that these slides were used as teaching aids by Donald Cowan during class instruction at the University of Waterloo. Two of the slides may have been used in a lecture on the Computing Centre at the University of Waterloo.

Slides featuring various images and diagrams related to the computer programming language Waterloo BASIC. It is likely that these slides were used as teaching aids by Donald Cowan during class instruction at the University of Waterloo.

Two original typed copies of a manuscript titled, "The allocation and scheduling of computer resources" by Donald Cowan and James Wesley Graham. The manuscript is twenty-four pages.

Overhead transparencies likely used during a presentation titled, "The challenges of creating, distributing and maintaining software from a university research laboratory," given by Donald Cowan. The presentation may have been delivered to or on behalf of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in Ottawa, Ontario on May 20, 1992.

Two copies of an article titled, "The challenges of teaching computer science by distance education," by V. Arnie Dyck, James P. Black, Donald Cowan, and Shirley L. Fenton. This article was published in the ICDE Bulletin, volume 18, pages 26-27.

A copy of The Coupler, (v.42, n.9). An announcement about Donald Cowan's appointment as Chairman of the Applied Analysis and Computer Science Department at the University of Waterloo is included on page 4.

A project outline with exercises titled, "the Critical Path Method." According to the document's introduction, "the purpose of the Critical Path Method (CPM) was to create a plan and then to place that plan on a schedule." It is likely this project outline was distributed to students as part of their coursework at the University of Waterloo.

A typed manuscript titled, "The data transform programming method and file processing problems" by C.J. Lucena, R.C.B. Martins, and P.A.S. Veloso (Departamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and Donald Cowan (Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo). The manuscript is 48 pages. In addition, the file contains a second copy of the article on a dot matrix printout and two copies of abstracts and introductions for the article in both English and Portuguese.

A report titled, "The development proposal - the first step in software system construction," by Donald Cowan and A.Von Staa (Departamento de Informática, Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). The report was published by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo as Research Report CS-78-31 in June 1978. The cover page of the report includes a note that the research was supported in part by Canadian National Research Council Grant A2655. The report is seventy-six pages.

A printed manuscript titled, "The education program for software professionals" by Donald Cowan. The manuscript is ten pages. Also contains a copy of an article titled, "Macleod wins world's richest literary award" that was published in The Globe and Mail on Monday, May 14, 2001.