I made some significant progress in my master’s thesis research this weekend. First of all, I was able to fix some bugs in the code and verify that all of the low-level functionality works correctly. This meant tackling some intimidating problems that had been hanging over my head for weeks. Fortunately, I was able to develop a clean and elegant solution and tie up the loose ends.

The second big piece of news is that I’ve started writing the actual thesis document. I completed the entire first chapter and wrote a draft of the second. Here’s my tentative outline for the finished product:

Introduction

Part One : Context

-Background

-Past Research

-Motivation and Guiding Principles

Part Two : Application Overview

-Program Flow Description

-Software Architecture

-Use Case Scenario

Part Three : Implementation

-Architecture Algorithms

-Mapping Algorithms

-Novel Features

Conclusion and Future Work

Appendices

-Verification and Testing

-Portability and Extensibility

-Requirements, Packaging, and Installation

-User Guide