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Dr. Donald D. Cowan fonds. North America
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University of Waterloo computing.

Slides featuring text about problems of training in practical areas and debugging processors. One slide features a map of Southwestern Ontario. The slides were likely used during a presentation about computing at the University of Waterloo.

Cowan, Donald D.

Trip to Tokyo to train IBM faculty.

Photographs documenting a one-week trip that several faculty members at the University of Waterloo took, including Donald Cowan and Shirley Fenton, to Tokyo, Japan to train IBM faculty. Some of the faculty members who participated in this trip also presented at a conference. Includes images of students working at computers, Donald Cowan standing in front of a computer while running a program from Waterloo, Shirley Fenton teaching as well as Donald Cowan and his wife with Shirley Fenton and guests at a restaurant. Also includes one sticker for the SATT Software Racing Team.

Cowan, Donald D.

Counting algorithms for connected labelled graphs / D.D. Cowan, R.C. Mullin, and R.G. Stanton.

Two copies of a typed manuscript titled, "Counting algorithms for connected labelled graphs" by Donald Cowan, R.C. Mullin, and Ralph G. Stanton. The manuscript is twelve pages. This paper was presented at the sixth Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing held at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida between February 17-20, 1975. This paper was subsequently published in the Proceedings of the sixth Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, pages 219-231. Also includes correspondence related to the submission of the paper to the conference.

Cowan, Donald D.

Development of education software : symposium papers.

Copies of three manuscripts that were presented at the 9th Canadian DECUS Symposium in Toronto, Ontario in January 1976. Includes:

  • 1. Cowan, D.D., P.H. Dirksen, J.W. Graham and J.W. Welch. Development of educational software using the DEC PDP-11. 17 pages.

  • 2. Cowan, D.D., Jack Schueler and J.W. Welch. Debugging aids for the PDP-11. 5 pages.

Cowan, Donald D.

IBM Education Executive Conference.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Computer law for the practitioner : seminar.

Material accumulated from the Canadian Bar Association - Ontario, Continuing Legal Education seminar "Computer law for the practitioner" held on Friday November 28, 1986 in Toronto, Ontario. Includes the contents of a binder given out to participants that is sorted into the following categories (tabs): Understanding the Basics, Contracts, Financing, Distribution and Marketing, Legal Protection, Software Escrow Agreements, and Tax Considerations. The first category includes an article titled, "Understanding the basics: an introduction to computer technology" by Donald Cowan and James Wesley Graham.

Cowan, Donald D.

International Bar Association Cambridge Conference.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

OUCC.

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

Cowan, Donald D.

CTT [Canada's Technology Triangle] presentation cover and related materials.

A CD-ROM titled, "CTT pres. cover / 4, 25, 00." The CD-ROM contains a folder named "eps files" with the following documents: inside.eps 20,781 KB PostScript 2000-04-24; outside.eps 20,961 KB PostScript 2000-04024. In addition, the CD-ROM includes a folder named "fonts" with a subfolder named "helvetica" and three documents "A Helvetica Compressed" 0 KB 1995-02-13, "A Helvetica Condensed" 0 KB 1995-02-13, "A Helvetica Inserat" 0 KB 1995-02-13; as well as another folder "zaft din" and two documents "A Zapf Dingbats" 0 KB 1995-02-13, and "ZapfDin" 0 KB 1993-08-05. Moreover, the CD-ROM also contains a folder named "postcript (2 pages)" and two documents ctt.folder.final.pdf 51 KB Adobe Acrobat Document 2000-04-24, and cct.folder.final.ps 41,726 KB PostScrpt 2000-04-24. Additional digital files include: CTT Logo.eps 55 KB PostScript 1999-07-23; ctt.folder.final 244 KB FINAL file 2000-04-24; ctt.folder.final.report 3 KB REPORT File 2000-04-24; mPowered Logo.eps 145 KB PostScript 2000-04-24; and Screenshots.eps 20,566 KB PostScript 2000-04-24.

The file also includes a photocopy of a document (title page and one page article) titled, "Connect Ontario notice of intent" published by mPowered CCT. The document was submitted by the Economic Development in Canada's Technology Triangle (EDICTT), representing Canada's Technology Triangle (Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and the Region of Waterloo).

Cowan, Donald D.

Formal structure for specifying the content and quality of the electronic health record / H. Dominic Covvey, David Zitner, Daniel M. Berry, Donald D. Cowan, and Michael Shepherd.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.