[Python-Dev] Looking for master thesis ideas involving Python

Holger Krekel pyth at devel.trillke.net
Wed Oct 29 02:59:18 EST 2003


Hi Brett,

Brett C. wrote:
> Today I got the wheels turning on my masters thesis by getting an 
> adviser.  Now I just need a topic.  =)  The big goal is to do something 
> involving Python for a thesis to be finished by fall of next year (about 
> October) so as to have it done, hopefully published (getting into LL4 
> would be cool), and ready to be used for doctoral applications come 
> January 2005.
> 
> So, anyone have any ideas?  The best one that I can think of is optional 
> type-checking.  I am fairly open to ideas, though, in almost any area 
> involving language design.

Maybe you have heard of PyPy, a reimplementation of Python in Python. 
We are employing quite some innovative approaches to language design
and implementation and there are certainly a lot of open research
areas. See our OSCON 2003 paper

    http://codespeak.net/pypy/index.cgi?doc/oscon2003-paper.html

or two interesting chapters out of our European Union proposal

    http://codespeak.net/pypy/index.cgi?doc/funding/B1.0
    http://codespeak.net/pypy/index.cgi?doc/funding/B6.0

You are welcome to discuss stuff on e.g. the IRC channel #pypy
on freenode or on the mailing list

    http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev 

in order to find out, if you'd like to join us and/or do some
interesting thesis. 

have fun,

    holger



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