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Two copies of a manuscript titled, "A study of the package software industry in Canada: a report submitted to the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce" by Donald Cowan and James Wesley Graham in August 1983. Both copies are sixty-eight pages.

Correspondence sent and received by Donald Cowan regarding the manuscript, "A study of the package software industry in Canada: a report submitted to the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce." The report was written by Donald Cowan and James Wesley Graham. Also includes notes, published articles, one draft copy of the report that was returned to Donald Cowan from a reviewer, and related items.

Correspondence received by Donald Cowan regarding the manuscript, "A study of the package software industry in Canada: a report submitted to the Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce." The report was written by Donald Cowan and James Wesley Graham. Also includes notes and published articles.

Three copies of an article titled, "Batch compilers for student programs on the PDP-11," by Donald Cowan, P.H. Dirksen, J.W. Graham, J.W. Welch, and T. Wilkinson. This article was published in the Proceedings of the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society, May 1976, pages 919-921.

Includes photographs of Wes Graham at convocation dinner.

Research materials created and accumulated by Donald Cowan related to data directed design. Includes overhead transparencies and notes. Also contains a copy of the article titled, "A data-directed approach to program construction, by Donald Cowan, James Wesley Graham and J.W. Welch as well as a copy of the article titled, "A formalization and explication of the Michael Jackson Method of program design" by J.W. Hughes.

File consists of a photocopy of a paper by D.D. Cowan and J.W. Graham, published in SIGPLAN Notices in July, 1970 (pp. 25-36).

A copy of an article titled, "Design characteristics of the WATFOR compiler," by Donald Cowan and James Wesley Graham. The article was published in SIGPLAN Notices, volume 5 (number 7), pages 25-36.

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.

Images of Wes Graham seated at a desk in an office.

A manual titled, "File processing with COBOL/WATBOL: part 2" by Donald Cowan, R.H. Cooper, Paul H. Dirksen, and James Wesley Graham. According to the introduction "the purpose of this text was to introduce some of the most common file-processing techniques, and to illustrate their implementation using the COBOL language." The manual is printed in two parts. Part 2 covers in detail the applications-oriented subjects such as sorting, file maintenance and report generation. Part 2 is one hundred and forty-two pages.

A manual titled, "File processing with COBOL/WATBOL: part 1, by Donald Cowan, R.H. Cooper, Paul H. Dirksen, and James Wesley Graham. According to the introduction "the purpose of this text was to introduce some of the most common file-processing techniques, and to illustrate their implementation using the COBOL language." The manual is printed in two parts. Part 1 introduces COBOL-oriented concepts and is one hundred and twenty-two pages.

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

A sound recording of an interview conducted by Dr. Anne Millar with Don Cowan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, for the Oral History Hub pilot project. The interview includes discussions about Cowan's family background, their decision to come to Waterloo and the path that brought them here, as well as their thoughts about the institution and where it will be at 100 years old, in 2057. Additional topics include computer science, IBM, Computer Science Days, math contests, WATFOR, WATFIV, MicroWAT, Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing, intellectual property, startups, co-op, Wes Graham, Ralph Stanton, Doug Wright, Ken Fryer, Paul Dirksen, Paul Cress, and Pat Fisher. The interview was conducted virtually from Waterloo, Ontario. File also contains a transcript of the interview.

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.

Images of Wes Graham seated at a desk in an office.

Seated formal portraits of Wes Graham.

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.

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.

Slides featuring images of text used during a presentation likely about the Waterloo Foundation for the Advancement of Computing (WATFAC).

Images of J. Wesley Graham standing in the Red Room inside the Mathematics and Computer (MC) building.