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Q&A Ending a PhD thesis by saying "there is more to do"

I think that's fine, actually, with a little tweaking. I'd move your "only the beginning" farther back in the paragraph, and clarify that thought a tiny bit: (bold is only for emphasis; you wouldn'...

posted 9y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#4: Attribution notice removed by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-13T12:00:28Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T04:03:29Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T04:03:29Z (almost 5 years ago)
I think that's fine, actually, with a little tweaking. I'd move your "only the beginning" farther back in the paragraph, and clarify that thought a tiny bit: (bold is only for emphasis; you wouldn't bold it in your thesis)

> > The proposed software architectures have been iteratively improved upon based on past experiences, case studies, and peer reviews. Nevertheless, no software architecture ever reaches perfection. **This thesis is only the beginning of [explain what's beginning: theories? solutions? a new field?].** Potential future directions include higher reconfigurability of the robot skin, allowing feedback from user applications to the robot skin, or real-time transfer of data between the host PC to other processing units and distributed tactile processing. Compliance to safety standards is another possible research direction.

Disclaimer: I'm not in academia; I'm reading this just from a coherence perspective.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2015-02-18T14:56:05Z (over 9 years ago)
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