Frequently Asked Questions and good advice.

• Master's thesis
• Guide to Writing a Master's Thesis

Sample master's theses:

Although these examples are not all from the computer science field, they give an good indication of the expected level of complexity and discussion.

• Miniature Gardens & Magic Crayons:Games, Spaces, & Worlds

  A Thesis Presented to The Academic Faculty by Chaim Gingold In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science in Information, Design & Technology School of Literature, Culture, & Communication Georgia Institute of Technology

• Design and Implementation of an Auralization System with a Spectrum-Based Temporal Processing Optimization

  An auralization software system for performing static (non-moving) sound source placement with headphone playback is developed using present theory and algorithms.

• The Tista and Pycast systems: Streaming with open standards

  This document describes the Tista on-demand streaming server and archiv- ing system, and the Pycast real-time streaming encoding application, both of which have been developed at Østfold University College, Norway. It also in- cludes a brief history of streaming, as well as an overview of significant media codecs, formats, transports and streaming protocols.

Advice on writing tools and publishing.

• The final thesis may by presented on a website, but it mus also be handed in as a printed document. It is therefore a good idea to use a tpesetting system such as LaTeX or DocBook.
• LaTeX is preinstalled on most Unix/Linux systems and is available for free downloading on both MS Windows and Mac OS platforms. LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation. LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents. (http://www.latex-project.org/)
• LaTeX has package implementations for most western and some other languages.
• Effective writing and markup for LaTeX or DocBook is significantly enhanced by the use of a good text editor such as Emacs which has major modes in the form of eLisp modules for many writing and programming environments. (See the resources page.)