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Subject: Re: Chess Programmers -- take note: M. N. J. van Kervinck's Master's Thesis

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 15:24:43 08/20/02

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On August 20, 2002 at 17:49:21, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On August 20, 2002 at 17:07:19, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>That is simply not true, the typical master here in Copenhagen takes 1 year.
>
>I assume you mean thesis.
>
>>It is a very big project, not something you do in two weeks.
>
>I'm well aware of that. But that is not the question.
>
>>You are expected to do experimental or theoretical work, write a thesis and most
>>need to defend the work in a master qolloqium.
>>A master is a mini Ph.D., except you do not have to publish and you have a
>>supervisor to help you. You will always get to do something unique (I've never
>>talked to someone that didn't), one year is simply too long for a copy/paste
>>job.
>
>Depending on discipline, the level of encouragement regarding independant work
>varies. It's usually an unavoidable sideeffect. But all the rules
>(studieordninger) that I know of allows for purely theoretical work as a thesis
>subject, which includes compiling known material as long as there's evidence of
>comprehension and independendant treatment of the topic in question.
>
>>You can find the rules here (danish only, couldn't find them in english):
>>http://www.sis.ku.dk/SHB/VisTekstAfsnit.asp?TekstAfsnit=4498&InFrame=0&Sprog=DK&vis=1&TopAfsnit=4426&4410#4426
>
>All the rules of varies disciplines concerning thesis work I checked at the
>above link allows for theoretical work, which can be a compendium of already
>published work. That's a fact.

Nonsense, what would be the point, anyone could toss together 100 pages in two
weeks, why would you need a year for that?

-S.


>Regards,
>Mogens



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