Poetic PhD Thesis Targets Larger-than-usual Audience

LANCASTER, UK - A recently submitted PhD thesis astonished academics throughout the United Kingdom when they discovered that it was completely written in verses, instead of the usual scholarly and dry terminology.

    Albrecht S. first thought of rewriting his PhD thesis in rhymes and verses, when the reporting of his experiments became tedious. "I thought by myself, why bother?", he clarifies, "Who would read this? But then it hit me: let's transform all this in poetry! Rhymes are enjoyed by young and old!".

    "Electrons streaming, giving us information, data spring at last", he whispers, while stretching his hand towards the ceiling, "Isn't that a great Haiku? I so love that thrilling verse form, describing the mundane in a way that gives the reader a brand new experience of a familiar situation. In fact, the entire introduction is written in the Haiku format."

Albrecht S. captivates unsuspecting ramblers in the Lake District, reciting verses from his PhD thesis 'Ode to Context Awareness'.

    The chapters that directly follow the introduction are written in more traditional rhymes. The second chapter, for instance, uses Limericks to explain the pitfalls of sorting algorithms: "There once was a man from Nantucket, who tried to sort data per bucket, but little did he know, that his code was too slow, in the end he gave up and yelled fu".

A pony is calmed by an excerpt from "Chapter 5: The Light Sensor". The rhymes in Albrecht S.' thesis truly bring consolation and joviality to a wide public.

    Towards the end of the thesis, more daring verse forms can be enjoyed: "To research context awareness, one could apply lots of math. But I ask you in all fairness, what idiot wants to do that?", combined with other quatrains, form a true Shakespearean sonnet in chapter seven.

     The conclusions chapter finally summarises this literary tour de force with fast-paced rap-rhymes: "context recognition, and data acquisition, was the ambition, of this submission, an' my proposition, as non-mathematician, is to go for fission, as a precondition, and per definition, of sensor transmission. Respect."

     This magnum opus won't be available for sale before winter next year, but those interested can pre-order by sending their credit card details to: thesis@poetry.r.us .