Chronology - 1970s: The Evolution of The University of Waterloo Continues
1971
C.R. "Bob" Zarnke, who formerly helped solve the Archimedes Cattle Problem and was one of the students who wrote the first WATFOR compiler, completed his PhD thesis, entitled "A Software Development Language." This is regarded as UW's first PhD thesis on software. Zarnke's thesis supervisor was Don Cowan.
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