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WATVD.

Slides featuring images of text and diagrams that were used during a presentation on WATVD. Some of the slides feature photographs of computer equipment.

Cowan, Donald D.

Waterloo microcomputer systems for the 1980's.

Slides and negatives featuring images of text, diagrams and graphics used during a presentation likely titled, "Waterloo microcomputer systems for the 1980s." The diagrams were created by Peter J. Ponzo, Professor, Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo. The presentation may have been delivered at the ACM Dallas Conference in 1982.

Cowan, Donald D.

Waterloo Interactive Debugging Job Entry Terminal (WIDJET) system.

Slides featuring images of text and diagrams used during a presentation about the Waterloo Interactive Debugging Job Entry Terminal (WIDJET) system. The slides also include information about the University of Waterloo, student computing problems, and the delivering of computing services and micro computer networks. The diagrams were created by Peter J. Ponzo, Professor, Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo.

Cowan, Donald D.

Views on the IIASA programme in computer communications and a review of some Canadian projects / A.R. Kaye, D.D. Cowan, and J.L. Hanna.

A typed copy of a presentation titled, "Views on the IIASA programme in computer communications and a review of some Canadian projects" by Donald Cowan, A.R. Kaye and J.L. Hanna delivered at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Schloss Laxenburg, Austria between October 21-25, 1974.

Cowan, Donald D.

University of Waterloo quarterly and Alumni courier.

Copies of the University of Waterloo quarterly and Alumni courier that include articles related to the establishment of the Faculty of Mathematics, the Computer Centre, WATFOR, and awards won by students in mathematics. Includes

1. University of Waterloo quarterly (v.7, n.2) June 1966.

2. University of Waterloo quarterly (v.7, n.2) November 1966.

3. University of Waterloo quarterly (v.8, n.1) April 19, 1967.

4. Unidentified publication, pages 3-6. Includes article, "Five new buildings under construction." These pages are possibly from the University of Waterloo quarterly or Alumni Courier. One of the buildings featured in the article is the Mathematics and Computer Building.

5. Unidentified publication, pages 3-6. Includes article, "Mathematics becomes faculty." These pages are possibly from the University of Waterloo quarterly or Alumni courier.

Cowan, Donald D.

University of Waterloo facilities and other topics.

Slides featuring images of text and diagrams related to various topics including networks, input methods, facilities at the University of Waterloo and more. Some slides feature images of the University of Waterloo crest, the Mathematics and Computer Building, the Red Room, and the Computing Centre. It is possible these slides are duplicates from several presentations.

Cowan, Donald D.

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.

University of Waterloo computing.

Slides featuring photographs of staff and students at the University of Waterloo working with computers likely in the Computing Centre. Several of the images are likely reproductions from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection or Graphic Services fonds.

Cowan, Donald D.

University of Waterloo computing.

Slides featuring photographs of staff and students at the University of Waterloo working with computers possibly in the Computing Centre. These slides are likely duplicates of other slides in the fonds.

Cowan, Donald D.

University of Waterloo computer science photographs.

Photographs related to computer science at the University of Waterloo. Includes images of computer equipment, buildings, facilities, staff, students, labs, and more. The photographs in this file are likely reproductions of images found in the Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection and the Graphic Services fonds. The photographs do not have any identifying reference codes on the back.

Cowan, Donald D.

University of Waterloo computer science photographs.

Photographs related to computer science at the University of Waterloo. Includes images of computer equipment, buildings, facilities, staff, students, labs, and more. All of the photographs in this file are reproductions of images in the Graphic Services fonds. Graphic Services fonds reference codes are written on the back of each photograph. Some of the photographs have captions written on the back identifying the subjects of the image.

Cowan, Donald D.

University of Waterloo campus.

Slides featuring photographs of the University of Waterloo campus and buildings including Dana Porter Library, the Mathematics and Computer Building, Grad House, and the William G. Davis Computer Research Centre.

Cowan, Donald D.

University of Waterloo : teaching files.

Material related to various courses taught by Donald Cowan at the University of Waterloo. Includes student grades, questionnaires, exams, notes, handouts, correspondence, overhead transparencies, teaching slides, and other items.

Cowan, Donald D.

University of Waterloo : employment and professional files.

Records documenting Donald Cowan's activities at the University of Waterloo as a faculty member and administrator in the Department of Computer Science, including his tenure as Chairman of the Department of Applied Analysis and Computer Science. These files also document Donald Cowan's involvement in groups such as the National Research Council of Canada Grant Selection Committee, Centre for Information Technology for the Environment (CITE) as well as the Institute for Computer Studies and the University of Waterloo’s alliance partnership. Includes correspondence, reports, articles, computer printouts, conference materials, notes, grant proposals, and other items.

Cowan, Donald D.

University of Waterloo : Computer Science program.

Slides featuring images of text and diagrams used during a presentation about the computer science program at the University of Waterloo. Some of the slides feature photographs of the Mathematics and Computer Building (one shows the pink tie), a campus sign, and people working at computer stations.

Cowan, Donald D.

University of Waterloo : campus and computing facilities.

Slides featuring photographs of the University of Waterloo, specifically buildings, computer equipment as well as staff and students using computer equipment. Many of the photographs are copies from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection or the Graphic Services fonds.

Cowan, Donald D.

University of Waterloo : campus and computing facilities.

Slides featuring photographs of the University of Waterloo including images of Dana Porter Library, the greenhouses, Grad House, the Mathematics and Computer Building, the Red Room and Computing Centre. Some slides also include photographs of staff and students using computer equipment. It is possible that these slides were used during a presentation about the University campus and computing facilities.

Cowan, Donald D.

Unidentified lecture slides.

Slides featuring images of text, equations, tree diagrams and punch cards. One slide features a photograph of an IBM computer, possibly the IBM 7040.

Cowan, Donald D.

Unidentified event.

Slides featuring photographs of an unidentified event at the University of Waterloo. The event name may have included the acronym OUCC and it may have been held between May 15-17 (year unknown).

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.

The life and times of Don Cowan (1960-1995): for SCI 333.

Overhead transparencies likely used during a presentation titled, "The life and times of Don Cowan (1965-1995)" delivered to students in the undergraduate course SCI 333: Science and Business Senior Seminar taught at the University of Waterloo in Fall 1995 by Dr. Robin-Reenstra-Bryant. Also includes a copy of the course syllabus for SCI 333. Donald Cowan may have given this presentation to students as a guest lecturer in the class on November 2, 1995.

Cowan, Donald D.

The Institute for Computer Studies and the University of Waterloo's Alliance Partnership.

Material related to the Institute for Computer Studies and the University of Waterloo's Alliance Partnership. The partnership between the Institute for Computer Studies and the University of Waterloo and was formally announced during a presentation on May 15, 2001. Includes two copies of the event schedule, two copies of the media release, two copies of an e-mail from CDI Investor Relations (CDI Education Corporation) to Donald Cowan, two copies of a CDI Education - EDU (TSE) stock quote, and a copy of an article titled, "The education program for software professionals" by Donald Cowan.

Cowan, Donald D.

The growth of network cost as a function of network size / D.D. Cowan and Vinton G. Cerf : drafts and related materials.

A typed manuscript titled, "The growth of network cost as a function of network size" by Vinton G. Cerf and Donald Cowan. The manuscript is fifteen pages. Also includes a second typed manuscript of the same title but the listed authors are V.G. Cerf, D.D. Cowan, R.C. Mullin, and R.G. Stanton. This manuscript is twenty-one pages. In addition, the file contains handwritten notes and correspondence from Ralph Stanton that may have been used to help create the manuscripts mentioned above.

Cowan, Donald D.

The efficient representation of inverted lists / D.D. Cowan, J. Wesley Graham, and James W. Welch.

A copy of an article titled, "The efficient representation of inverted lists," by Donald Cowan, James Wesley Graham, and James W. Welch. The article was published in Congressus Numerantium 17, Proceedings of the Seventh Southeastern Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Computing, February 9-12, 1976, pages 257-272.

Cowan, Donald D.

The education program for software professionals / Don Cowan.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

The development proposal - the first step in software system construction / D.D. Cowan and A.Von Staa.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

The data transform programming method and file processing problems / C.J. Lucena, R.C.B. Martins, P.A.S. Veloso and D.D. Cowan.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

The Critical Path Method.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

The Coupler (v. 42, n.9).

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

The challenges of creating, distributing and maintaining software from a university research laboratory / Don Cowan.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Teaching slides : Waterloo BASIC.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Teaching slides : users, applications, and systems.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Teaching slides : 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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Teaching slides : sequential circuits.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Teaching slides : personal computing, microprocessors, and microcomputers.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Teaching slides : computer networking.

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."

Cowan, Donald D.

Teaching slides : computer memory.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Teaching slides : compiler WATBOL.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Some thoughts on the construction of programs - a data-directed approach / D.D. Cowan and Carlos J. P. Lucena.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Some results on path numbers / R.G. Stanton, D.D. Cowan and L.O. James.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Solutions to Critical Path Method problems.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Sequential optimization methods for determining the zeros of polynomials / Gerald Berman and Donald D. 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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Seminar notices and related materials.

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

Cowan, Donald D.

Research, November 23, 1990, #1 : notebook.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Research.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Reproductions of photographs.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Red Room in Computing Centre.

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.

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Ramsey theory.

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.

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Publications.

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.

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Publications.

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

Cowan, Donald D.

Professional correspondence and related materials.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Press clippings and related materials.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Press clippings.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Portability details.

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.

Cowan, Donald D.

Personal work station at the University of Waterloo.

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.

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Personal.

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.

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Papers in progress.

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).

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