Chronology - 1990s: An Era of New Technology Applications

1995

Powersoft was acquired by Sybase, the world's sixth largest computer software company.
UW Special Collections. GA 133-1503. Wes Graham Fonds. Series 4.2: UW Post-1973 Files. Mike Strathdee, "Sybase has jewel in Waterloo." Kitchener Record. (Saturday, April 12, 1997), E1.

In 1995, Ian McPhee, a long time associate of Wes Graham, became the first recipient of the J. Wesley Graham Medal. The Graham Medal was instituted to recognize the UW graduate that best exemplified the qualities shown by Professor Graham, who the Mathematics Faculty claimed had done more than any other single person to establish UW's international reputation in computing. The award was given to McPhee in order to recognize his leadership of WATCOM throughout the 1980s and acknowledge his successes in the Powersoft and Sybase mergers.
UW Special Collections. GA 133-43. Wes Graham Fonds. Series 1.1: Biographical. "JW Graham Medal awarded to Ian McPhee," Math Ties: Faculty of Mathematics Alumni News. (Vol. 10, No. 3, August 1995). 1-2.

For a list of other Graham Medal recipients please visit: http://infranet.uwaterloo.ca/infranet/jwgraham.htm


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