Cracking the Voynich code 2014 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.

Briefly record (i) progress, (ii) problems/questions, (iii) goals for following week.

Semester 1 Week 1

Bryce

1. Week 1 progress:
   • Group meeting with supervisors (Derek, Maryam) and project partner (Peter)
   • Started reading and discussing background information on Voynich Manuscript
   • Attended literature training session with Kay Leverett (Friday, 9am)
2. Goals for Week 2:
   • Begin article searching and research into the Voynich Manuscript
   • Start on Project Proposal preparation

Peter

1. Week 1 progress:
   • First group meeting with supervisors
   • Started reading articles about current progress made towards a translation
   • Found and discussed the merits of some of the available ascii representations of the manuscript
   • Attended literature search training with Kay Leverett
2. Goals for Week 2:
   • Start on project proposal preparation
   • Write some basic scripts to help with formatting and searching the ascii files
   • Continue researching the Voynich Manuscript and the attempts that have been made to decode it

Semester 1 Week 2

Bryce

1. Week 2 progress:
   • Attended the Risk Assessment and Management lecture (Thursday)
   • Met with Peter and discussed plans and content for the proposal seminar:
     • Organised times for which to do the presentation
     • Looked at previous years proposal presentations
   • Found previous comparisons on word frequency/occurrence and plots people have done on the Voynich Manuscript
2. Goals for Week 3:
   • Have a draft of the proposal presentation ready for Monday
   • Finalise and practice

Peter

1. Week 2 progress:
   • Attended Risk Management Lecture
   • Met with Bryce and discussed proposal seminar
   • Continued research on past VMS decoding work
2. Goals for Week 3:
   • Complete Proposal Seminar Draft Slides by Monday
   • Discuss Draft Slides with Supervisor
   • Finalise and practice seminar

Semester 1 Week 3

Bryce

1. Week 3 progress:
   • Discussion of project proposal with supervisor and team (Tuesday)
   • Added comparison table, video and WRI slides
   • Edit and finalise presentation
   • Presented at proposal seminar (Friday 4:35pm)
2. Goals for Week 4:
   • Investigate alternate plans and suggestions
   • Further research
   • Continue as per the Gantt chart and WBS

Peter

1. Week 3 progress:
   • Discussed Proposal Seminar Draft with Supervisor (Tuesday)
   • Added SVM, MDA, HMM theoretical slides to presentation
   • Completed and edited presentation slides and notes
   • Proposal Seminar (Friday 4:35pm)
2. Goals for Week 4:
   • Discuss and refine project planning
   • Continue with phase 1 of project plan

Semester 1 Week 4

Bryce

1. Week 4 progress:
2. Goals for Week 5:

Peter

1. Week 4 progress:
   • Prototype scripting with voytools and matlab/octave
   • Organised Team Dropbox to better suit project work
2. Goals for Week 5:
   • Meet with team and supervisor
     • Update and finalise gantt chart/WBS
     • Discuss cloud storage options for code
     • Discuss current code work
   • Continue with phase 1 as per gantt chart

See also

• Cracking the Voynich code
• Cracking the Voynich code 2014
• Semester A Progress Report 2014 - Cracking the Voynich code
• Semester B Final Report 2014 - Cracking the Voynich code

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