On October 2, 2005 3:26 PM Antoine Hersen wrote: > > I am pursuing a master degree in CS at California State > University of Sacramento and an Engineering degree in > France. > > I am looking for a Master Thesis subject in CS and I will be > very interested to do something related to CAS and Axiom.
Great! I think Axiom provides a lot of opportunities for mathematically oriented computer science at the masters level (and Phd level too). Axiom would benefit greatly by the attention of a new generation of researchers and developers. > I have fairly decent ability in math as I am planning to > get a master in math after. And I am good at functional > language even if I am more familiar with ML and Scheme > than CL. Although it is true that Axiom is implemented in Common Lisp, a knowledge of lisp is not essential for using Axiom or even programming in Axiom at the level of mathematical algorithms. The Axiom languages SPAD and Aldor do have some elements of functional-style programming. > > I will really appreciate any idea with some track to > begin. And hope to make a positive contribution to Axiom. > There are a lot of ideas for work on Axiom described on the Axiom website. See for example: http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/FutureDevelopment Since Axiom is an open source project primarily supported by volunteers, most of these projects are likely only to be undertaken by one of the volunteers if/when they have a direct need ... or maybe never. To get an idea of what it is like working with Axiom, you might want to attempt a simple project from those listed on the web site. But my best advice to a master's student is to *first* find a thesis adviser at your institution who has interests similar to your own, or at least is sympathetic to what you want to study. If you post an outline of a proposal here in this mailing list, I think you will find many people willing to offer suggestions and support. Best Wishes, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
