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The Outline
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Introduction Outline

• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Problem Statement
• 1.2 Motivation
• 1.3 Approach
• 1.4 Societal Implications
• 1.4.1 Ethics
• 1.4.2 Safety

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Thesis proposals Need

• 2. Historical Review
• 2.1 Review about 45 papers
• 2.2 Ans questions like
• How does this related to my contribution?
• What did they contribute?
• Why is this paper important to my work?
• What are they claiming?
• Are these claims valid?

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Contributions

• Theory or background, as needed
• Validation
• Experimental Results Expected
• Preliminary theories to be tested
• Preliminary design of the experiments
• How results will be summarized.
• 5. Milestones (project time line)

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How many pages?

• Midterm is typically more than 6 pages long.
• 22.5 papers, on avg being reviewed. Write 1.5
  paras on each oneSo this is about 33 paras..That
  is 3 or 4 pages (min) right there. TOC PS, you
  will needs at least 6 pages to complete, more
  likely you will need about 12 or more.

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What can I have in the midterm?

• Preliminary thesis proposal.
• Sell your idea.
• Package IT! Correct Formatting
• Good grammar
• Refined outline
• Proper style for bib.
• Try to make it blemish free.
• Proof read!

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When can I submit?

• Submit early, submit often!
• Progress reports, from midterm on, are the full
  thesis proposals with additions, pointed out.
• The goal of the READING course is to create a
  thesis proposal as an outcome that is acceptable!

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What is an acceptable thesis proposal?

• It cant be trivial!
• It must be doable in the given time!
• Plan for failure!
• Research is a speculative activity!
• You WILL not be productive every week.
• It is all due the Wednesday the week before
  thanksgiving (in two weeks)

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Conclusion

• 6. Related Results (in final phase of thesis)
• 7. Conclusion
• Future work (after the thesis is done)
• 8. Literature Cited (30-45 papers)

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How do I organize the lit?

• 3D Range Finders
• Passive Rangefinders
• Binocular vision
• Diffraction
• Active Rangefinders
• Sound
• Ultrasonic ping
• EMF
• RF Ping
• Diffraction
• Triangulation

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Acceleration of Java

• HP APIs (Native)
• Vectorization
• Asm
• Distributed Computing

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How did they design it?

• Simulation (if simulation is good enough, then
  you can design fast).
• Build prototypes!