Week 7 - Progress Report

T minus 11 days

It's official, I will be presenting my topic on the 30'th of May, leaving me eleven days to get that presentation and hopefully the final paper completed. My research is essentially completed, I just need to organize the information and take the time to get the first draft completed. I do feel prepared at this stage, even though the apparently sudden onset of the presentation dates did take me a little by surprise. This is where the rubber meets the road in terms of really diving into the contextualization of the ideas I've gathered so far on password authentication.

My plan is to have the first draft completed at a minimum by the presentation date; hopefully it will be a second or third draft, I would really prefer to have my thoughts completely refined before going in to present a technical topic to a group of technically inclined people.

This past week I spent a lot of time going over areas that I have previously covered. It's important to familiarize myself with the whole breadth of my research so far before getting too far into the writing stage. Having the entire context in mind will help focus the paper in the right areas, and not just focusing on whatever research I've been doing in just the last few weeks.