Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 11:51:56 08/21/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 12:01:39, Sune Fischer wrote: >On August 20, 2002 at 11:28:16, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On August 20, 2002 at 11:23:25, Tony Werten wrote: >> >>>Probably true, but it's exactly the (own) research I miss in this paper. It >>>resembles more a collection of other peoples work. ( I've read quite a few ) >>> >>>Nice for someone who wants to start writing a chess engine, but it has nothing >>>to do with a thesis. >> >>It's my understanding that for a masters, the amount of own contributions >>is allowed to be minimal. (Contrary to a PhD) > >I was told by my supervisor that my thesis sould be about 150 pages, of those >about 50 can be 'old news'. >They allow these 50 pages for background information, and for me to prove that I >have actually read and understand the basic concepts for what the thesis is >about. Also it is nice to give the reader some introduction into the field of >your study (even physicists don't know everything about everything:). > >Then I'm allowed about 30 pages of graphs and data, the remaining 70 pages is >expected to be original reasearch. > >I was not under the general impression this stardard is exceptionally high for a >masters. Your impression is wrong. That's way over the top for a master's thesis -- in computing science, in North America, anyway. Perhaps your supervisor was thinking of Ph.D. thesis requirements. Dave
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