Held Meeting with Dr Simon Poon on last Monday, discussed the thesis topic and what was required. Was given two additional papers to read through before meeting again. Have scheduled to read papers during this week, and also to make notes on paper in order to gain a better working knowledge of the papers.

So far the thesis topic, to my understanding, is about the change which has occurred to industry, as seen from a productivity point of view. My past meetings with Dr Poon have indicated that the change can be mapped as a function, and using fuzzy clustering to find centoids for groups (groups might be defined as an industry). To do this in detail, I require an understanding of econometrics, and also a knowledge of a statistical tool such as shazam to map these functions.