Wednesday, May 14, 2025
At the groundbreaking for the new Mathematics 4 (M4) building in October 2024, Dr. Mark Giesbrecht, dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, addressed a full crowd in the Davis Centre. He told the crowd that the Faculty would shape the future of technology just as it had shaped the past.
Those words held special significance for Dr. Don Cowan (MSc ’61, PhD ’65) and Ian McPhee (BMath ’73, MMath ’79, DMath ’11). As key contributors alongside many other ݮƵ pioneers, they transformed the computing world — first with the creation of WATFOR, a legendary compiler for IBM mainframes, in the 1960s and later the software spinoff WATCOM in the ’80s and ’90s.
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