In preparation for my second honours project meeting I was asked to report my progress by under several headings. Additionally, I have prepared an updated Gantt chart reflecting the changes mentioned. Continue reading »
Final Proposal Outline
January 2nd, 2010
I completed a further proposal outline, reviewed by my supervisor and classmates, which I am expanding into a final proposal for the commencement of term next week.
I added a lot of content to this draft, and was unsure exactly what was appropriate to mention and what would not be suitable (either by being too simple or more relevant in my final dissertation), so I’m glad this was cleared up. Changes are also to be made to the overall structure of the proposal. Finally, I’ll attempt to reduce the number of references and leave some of them for my dissertation, as apparently half a dozen references would be a more suitable amount for a proposal. I think this reduction will largely occur naturally when I restructure the proposal, however.
Here’s the second outline draft, the finished proposal should be up within the next week.
Project Proposal Draft
December 13th, 2009
For my first group meeting with my supervisor Dr. Henry Fortuna and fellow students Dave and Drew, we were asked to prepare an outline of our project proposal.
Here’s my initial outline, which I am expanding on for our next meeting and will redraft into a complete proposal over Christmas.
We discussed a number of points, most of them common to each of our proposals. As well as this, Dr Ozveren gave further advice during his lecture on Thursday which will be addressed in my redraft.
- In terms of structure, “Motivation” deals with too many points and could become condescending to someone who is familiar with the topic. Splitting the proposal to deal with literature review under its own subheading will help to address this and to emphasise the research work which has taken place.
- The basic outline did not make it clear which points were taken or referencing literature and which were my own, obviously this is vital in the final proposal and as such should be demonstrated in the redraft.
- The section “Addressing the Question” might be better separated into “Issues”, “Methodology” and “Evaluation”
- The proposal should also include objectives and milestones, and optionally constraints, assumptions and risks.
Research Question Presentation
November 23rd, 2009
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Today we were tasked with presenting our research topic to our lecturers and classmates. As you can see from the slides above, we were given only a short period of time, 3 minutes at most, to cover background information, our own solutions, and the significance of our work. Continue reading »
Project Experiments
October 27th, 2009
I’ve made some progress in the past week with my honours projects, creating small experimental programs to familiarise myself with multi-threading in .NET. Thankfully so far I’ve found the syntax clear and consistent with the terms normally involved in parallel processing. Although this doesn’t simplify the task of designing the program it certainly avoids the implementation overhead which has been inherent in my attempts with multi-threading in C++.
The programs I’ve been working on are in C#, though I’d be interested to try other .NET languages. In each, I processed thousands of entities allowing each to rotate and bounce around a window. Different methods of splitting up and dealing with this work in parallel were experimented with. Continue reading »