Cipher cracking 2012 weekly progress

Weekly progress and questions

This is where you record your progress and ask questions. Make sure you update this every week. The deadline is every Friday evening. However, if you sometimes slip a little into the weekend (so long as you don't do it too often) we won't be too hard on your marks.

Please remember that we make use of this progress section to give you your project mark. Your mark will suffer if you don't complete this section.

Semester 1 Week 1

Thomas

1. Week 1 progress:
   • First Meeting with Aidan and Derek
   • Introduction to the 'wiki' site
   • Watched the ABC report on the 2009 project
   • Attended to the Literature Search Training Session with Aidan, ran by Kay Leveret in the Barr Smith Library
2. Goals for Week 2:
   • Perform more research on previous year's projects
   • Start work on Proposal Seminar presentation
   • Burn a copy of last years work for Aidan and I.
   • Review the project goals put forward by Derek in the meeting.

Aidan

1. Week 1 progress:
   • First Meeting with Thomas & Derek
   • Introduction to wiki page
     • Researched background to project
     • Attended Literature Search Training session with Thomas, run by Kay Leverett
2. Goals for Week 2:
   • Read through wiki pages for previous years
   • Start proposal seminar

Semester 1 Week 2

Thomas

1. Week 2 progress:
   • Began work on Proposal Seminar
   • Researched more into the case
   • Met up with Aidan to confirm our approach to the project
   • Confirmed with Derek to obtain links to relevant information on the project
2. Goals for Week 3:
   • Finalise and present Proposal Seminar
   • Review more into previous work
   • Plan out strategy for working through the project

Aidan

1. Week 2 progress:
   • Began work on proposal seminar
   • Reviwed previous years' wiki pages
   • Met up with Thomas
2. Goals for Week 3:
   • Finish proposal seminar
   • Break down project into individual tasks
   • Obtain access to an SVN repository for project backing up

Semester 1 Week 3

Thomas

1. Week 3 progress:
   • Finished off Proposal Seminar
   • Presented the Proposal Seminar with Aidan to Derek
   • Researched into aspects of the 2011 project, and the improvements required
   • Began looking into enquiring a 3d camera for reconstruction aspect of project
   • Set up an SVN for use in the project.
2. Goals for Week 4:
   • Begin reviewing and confirming previous results from project
   • Enquire further into obtaining a 3d camera
   • Plan out the progress, and milestone required for the project.
   • Look into Matthew's idea about using Amazon EMR

Aidan

1. Week 3 progress:
   • Drafted Project outline and Gantt Chart
   • Finished proposal seminar
   • Presented proposal seminar with Thomas to Derek
   • Set up SVN repository to store work
   • Looked into acquiring 3D camera for image reconstruction
2. Goals for Week 4:
   • Begin review of previous years' work
   • Research alternative 3D cameras

Semester 1 Week 4

Thomas

1. Week 4 progress:
   • Discussed Amazon EMR, decided to differ for the now
   • Looked into the 3D camera, and other modeling software
   • Reviewed previous languages from past work
2. Goals for Week 5:
   • Discuss division of project
   • Look into further languages to review

Aidan

1. Week 4 progress:
   • Discussed Amazon EMR, decide against for the time being
   • Compared Somerton Man code to initial letters of English language (Oxford English dictionary)
   • Compared Somerton Man code to initial letters for 100 most common English words
   • Compared Somerton Man code to initial letters for 1000 most common English words
2. Goals for Week 5:
   • Discuss division of project

Semester 1 Week 5

Thomas

1. Week 5 progress:
   • Discussed how the project will be divided up with Aidan
   • Began looking into further languages to compare to the code
   • Discussed Cyrillic languages and the possible use of them
2. Goals for Week 6:
   • Review Cypher GUI
   • Review PM Scanner and 123D Catch

Aidan

1. Week 5 progress
   • Test run of webcrawler
   • Discussed eliminating Eastern European languages as possibilities with Tom
   • Looked into transliteration of Cyrillic languages
2. Goals for Week 6:
   • Make webcrawler interface more user-friendly

Semester 1 Week 6

Thomas

1. Week 7 progress:
   • Decided against using the PM Scanner and 123D Catch, as the software didn't meet the requirements for the project
   • Corresponded with Henry Hu about Laser Safety
   • Ordered DAVID-Laserscanner
2. Goals for Week 7:
   • Meet up with Henry to find out about Risk Assessment and SOPs
   • Convert the language texts into a usable format

Aidan

1. Week 6 progress
   • Wrote Java program to analyse frequencies of letters in text documents
   • Ordered laser scanner kit
2. Goals for Week 7:
   • Look into doing risk assessment and SOPs for laser safety

Semester 1 Week 7

Thomas

1. Week 7 progress:
   • Discussed Risk Assessment and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) with Aidan and Henry
   • Began downloading Tower of Bible verses in multiple languages
2. Goals for Week 8:
   • Finalize the language texts
   • Convert into Frequency format to review with SM Code

Aidan

1. Week 7 progress
   • Discussed Risk Assessment and Standard Operating Procedures with Tom and Henry Ho
2. Goals for Week 8:
   • Draft Risk Assessment
   • Draft SOPs
   • Refine Java program to output CSV (Comma Separated Values) file

Semester 1 Week 8

Thomas

1. Week 8 progress:
   • Helped Aidan with draft Risk Assessment
   • Finished downloading all 85 languages into text files
2. Goals for Week 9:
   • Begin reviewing and confirming previous results from project

Aidan

1. Week 8 progress
   • Drafted a Risk Assessment
2. Goals for Week 9:
   • Draft SOP

Semester 1 Week 9

Thomas

1. Week 9 progress:
   • Coded out program to produce frequency analysis of all the language files
   • Began converting analysis into graphs
2. Goals for Week 10:
   • Finalize conversion of analysis
   • Code program to take first letter of each of the languages files
   • Repeat analysis with new data

Aidan

1. Week 9 progress
   • Drafted a Standard Operating Procedure

Semester 1 Week 10

Aidan

1. Week 10 progress
   • Met up with Tom and Derek to discuss progress

See also

• Cipher Cracking 2012
• Semester A Progress Report 2012
• Final Report 2012
• Cipher Cross-off List
• Cipher GUI 2011
• Cipher GUI 2012
• Web Crawler 2011
• Web Crawler 2012
• 2011 YouTube Project Video
• [2012 YouTube Project Video]

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