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

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 10:49:06 08/21/02

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On August 21, 2002 at 11:52:06, Sune Fischer wrote:

>For physics? Show me.

Just follow your own link and read under thesis for physics. Then you'll find:

"Specialestudiet gennemføres normalt i tæt kontakt med en gruppe forskere og kan
bestå i et afgrænset forskningsprojekt og/eller et kritisk litteraturstudium
inden for et valgt fagområde. Studiet kan også gennemføres inden for (et af) de
fysiske fags didaktik."

That's pretty clear to me and comparable to other Danish universities.

>First of all that is in mathematics, I'm not even sure they require a Master
>project, rules change almost every year I think.

I'm quite sure they do.

>Second, do you call making a compendium doing theoretical work, because it says
>experimental, analytical or theoretical study. Personally wouldn't translate
>that to: the construction of a compendium.

A compendium is just one of a variety of options. The thesis is in question is
more comparable to a literary study and not really a compendium.

>It needs a bit more substance, I saw 2-3 pages of real interesting stuff, the
>rest is well known and just a compendium. Not a whole lot of work for 1 years
>credit if you ask me.

That may be the case. The question was if a similar thesis or thesis approach
was possible in Denmark. The answer is yes without a doubt. Whether it would
meet the scholastic requirements is another matter altogether.

>After all we must assume he wrote the program for his thesis to _get the data_,
>and not just for the fun of it, right ;)

Or as a practical implementation of demonstrational value.

Regards,
Mogens



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