[1] Bowles received his PhD under Henry G. Booker at Cornell University in 1955[2] for radar studies of the Aurora Borealis.
[2] The UCSD concerns about taxes[1] forced the project to be licensed to SofTech Microsystems, taking effect 1 June 1979.
[5] Bowles then started a small software development company, soon to be called TeleSoft, which became a principal supplier of compilers for the Ada programming language worldwide.
After selling his part interest in TeleSoft in 1989, he participated for several years in the ISO committee responsible for the Ada 95 revision of the language.
[2] In retirement Bowles enjoyed photography, mostly of the wild-flowers of San Diego County and birds of the south-western USA.