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==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2020==
==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2021==


This page currently lists design briefs under development. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome, to group-project@cl.cam.ac.uk  
This page currently lists design briefs under development. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome, to group-project@cl.cam.ac.uk  
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Information for the [[Coordinators]]
Information for the [[Coordinators]]


==Management timetable for 2021==
==Management timetable for 2023==


Master timetable for the course (which should be consistent with front page of the briefing booklet) will be available from here:
Master timetable for the course:
(currently waiting for update - the linked page shows timetable for 2020. Substantial change will be required for Covid regulations, and the number of client meetings will be increased from 3 to 4)
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/teaching/part-ib/group-projects/important-dates
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/timetable.html


==Work in progress - design briefs for 2024==


==Work in progress - design briefs for 2021==
Notes on: [[What makes a good project?]]
 
In 2024, we expect there will be 138 students, so 23 project teams of 6. We aim to advertise at least 25 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.
 
===Confirmed design briefs for 2024===
 
# [[Acoustic Land Management]]
# [[Braille Predictive Text]]
# [[Climate Foresight]]
# [[Component Quest]]
# [[Copilot for Business]]
# [[Creative Writing Coach]]
# [[Disability Bias Explorer]]
# [[DoS D-Stress]]
# [[Engaging Everyone]]
# [[Envisioning Nairobi]]
# [[Heterodox Economic Modeller]]
# [[Influencing Health]]
# [[Investment Provenance]]
# [[Memories Retold]]
# [[Optimising Music Notation]]
# [[P2P Social Network]]
# [[Ramping Up Sustainable Crops]]
# [[Real-pedia]]
# [[Supply Chain Resilience]]
# [[Talking Music]]
# [[Taste: Movies x Books x Music]]
# [[Testing for Humans]]
# [[Visiting the Forest Stream]]
# [[Wearable Sleep Coach]]
# [[World Craft]]
 
===Confirmed clients for 2024 (partial list)===
 
* [[ClimateInColour]]
* [[Cam-AI]]
* [[NIAB]]
* [[Embecosm]]
* [[Lee Wilson]]
* [[Microsoft Research]]


Notes on: [[What makes a good project?]]
===Other design briefs considered for 2024===


In 2021, we expect there will be 117 students, so 20 project teams: 17 teams of 6 and 3 teams of 5. We aim to advertise at least 22 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.
# [[The Big Chill]]
# [[Future Health and Fitness]]
# [[AfroInsight]]
# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
# [[Environmental Value Added]]
# [[Just Maps]]
# [[Non-WEIRD Data Science]]


===Confirmed projects for 2021 - 22 required===
==Future preparation - design briefs for 2025==


# [[Remote Reading]]
===Projects to consider in 2025===
# [[Aerial Video Selfies]]
# [[Instrument Landing App]]
# [[Deliberative Social Media]]
# [[Zoom into Books]] - question about IP
# [[Boosting Skills after COVID-19]]
# [[Augmented Room Dressing for Zoom]]
# [[The Automatic Financial Analyst]] - question about IP
# [[Galapagoan Machine Learning]]
# [[De-biasing the Employment Process]]
# [[Virtual Agronomist]]
# [[Cascading Galton Boards]]
# [[Intelligent Tools for Coeliac Disease Diagnosis]]
# [[Mapping the Missing]]
# [[West Cambridge Airfreight]]
# [[Consignment Tetris]]
# [[Clinical Nursing for Children]]
# [[Speeding Up Evidence Synthesis for Conservation]]
# [[The New Internet of Things]]
# [[Computing for Bird Colonies]]


===Potential clients for 2021===
* [[Living Salad Bar]]
* [[Dignified Distributed Work]]
* [[The Carbon Eye]]
* [[ResponsibleAncestry.com]]
* [[Guitar tab2hand]]


Could proceed (topic discussed):
===Potential clients for 2025===
* [[Frontier]] - second project
* [[The Fusion Works]]
* [[NIAB]] - second project
* [[Informetis]]
* [[Giving Voice to Digital Democracies]]
* [[Ab Initio Software]]
* [[TechWolf]]


Possible (interested contact):
* [[Anthony Harris]]
* [[Dovetailed]]
* [[Rivos Systems]]
* [[Broadcom]]
* [[JAID]]
* [[ARM]]
* [[AMD]]
* [[Fair Finance]]
* [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]]
* Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub
* Adham Ashton-Butt, [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* Adam Devenish, RSPB
* Maximilian Ge


Unknown (waiting to find contact):
===Incubator and network contacts===
* [[Morgan Stanley]]
* [[Refinitiv]]
* [[Jump Trading]]
* [[Autodesk]]


Unlikely:
* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
* [[DAMTP Image Analysis Group]]
* [[Barn4]]
* [[Microsoft Africa Research Institute]]
* [[Ideaspace]]
* Sara Turkentine <sara@gearset.com>
* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
* Dora Musci <mdora@amazon.co.uk>, Chris Power <chrpw@amazon.co.uk>, Amazon (London)
* [[Nicola Buckley]] - policy fellows at CSaP


===Confirmed clients for 2021===
===Other client discussions (last updated 2023)===


* [[IMC]]
* [[SMARTRI Indonesia]]
* [[DX Analytics]]
* [[Mark Gotham]]
* [[Digital Boost]]
* [[Daniel Hall]]
* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
* Neil Walker
* [[Milk and More]]
* [[Jane Street]]
* [[Fair Finance]]
* [[The Fusion Works]]
* [[Frontier]]
* [[Frontier]]
* [[QoKoon]]
* [[Amazon]]
* [[Cambridge Conservation Initiative]]
* [[Dovetailed]]
* [[Umbrella Analytics]]
* [[JP Morgan]]
* [[NIAB]]
* [[Centre for Policy Futures]]
* [[Boeing]]
* [[Gardin]]
* [[Lyzeum Ltd]]
* [[ICCCAD]]
* [[Metropolitan Police]]
* [[Antobot]]
* [[MathWorks]]
* [[Morgan Stanley]]
* [[Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health]]
* [[Curriculum for Life]]
* [[Microsoft Research]]
* [[Department of Zoology]]
* [[RSPB]]
* [[RSPB]]
* [[BigPay]]
* [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* [[University Information Services]]


====Potential clients brought forward from 2020====
===Development notes carried forward from 2021===


* [[Thales]]
* [[Frontier]] - second project
* [[JP Morgan]]
* [[NIAB]] - second project
* [[Sainsbury Laboratory]]
* [[Informetis]] - topic discussed
* [[Giving Voice to Digital Democracies]] - topic suggested, no response
* [[ARM]] - contact identified, but no topic


* Proposed new mechanism: [[Self-selected]] project
===Other clients from 2021===


====Potential clients to contact for 2022====
* [[MathWorks]]


* [[Oodle]]
* [[Boeing]]
* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
* [[TechWolf]]
* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]]
* [[DX Analytics]]
* [[NHS Digital]]
* [[Umbrella Analytics]]
* [[Ideaspace]]
* [[Lyzeum Ltd]]
* [[Broadcom]] - all contact emails now bounce


==[[Previous ideas that have not been used]]==
==[[Previous ideas that have not been used]]==
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* [[Calendar Dialogue]] - [[Amazon]]
* [[Calendar Dialogue]] - [[Amazon]]
* [[Auto-Emoji]]
* [[Auto-Emoji]]
* [[Archaeological databases]]
* [[Archaeological databases]]
* [[The Headless Bicycle]]
* [[The Headless Bicycle]]
* [[Emo Face]]
* [[Emo Face]]
* Character Locomotion Middleware - [[Frontier]]
* Character Locomotion Middleware - [[Frontier]]
* Automatic accessibility assessor - [[Frontier]]
* Automatic accessibility assessor - [[Frontier]]
* City generation - [[Frontier]]
* City generation - [[Frontier]]


==Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future==
==Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future==


* 2020: [[Argon Design]]
* 2022: [[Autodesk]]
* 2019: [[Smart Cambridge]], [[Mindi]], [[Fauna and Flora International]], [[Fusepump]], [[Investre]], [[Netcraft]]
* 2021: [[FetoLife]], [[Oodle]], [[NHS Digital]], [[Jump Trading]], [[Microsoft Africa Research Institute]]
* 2020: [[Argon Design]], [[Gearset]], [[Thales]], [[Sainsbury Laboratory]]
* 2019: [[Smart Cambridge]], [[Mindi]], [[Fauna and Flora International]], [[Fusepump]], [[Investre]],
* 2018: [[Sparx]], [[Cambridge Consultants]], [[Capita]], [[Nominet Trust]], [[University Information Services]], [[Sport England]]
* 2018: [[Sparx]], [[Cambridge Consultants]], [[Capita]], [[Nominet Trust]], [[University Information Services]], [[Sport England]]
* 2017: [[BT]], [[Palantir]], [[Elm Partners]], [[Lucid / Cycorp]], [[Microsoft Research]]
* 2017: [[BT]], [[Palantir]], [[Elm Partners]], [[Lucid / Cycorp]], [[Microsoft Research]]
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* 2015: [[Thales]], [[Steve Wade]], [[Cambridge Humanitarian Centre]]
* 2015: [[Thales]], [[Steve Wade]], [[Cambridge Humanitarian Centre]]
* 2014: [[Broadcom]], [[last.fm]], [[Rangespan]], [[John McMillan]], [[Atheon]], [[OpenMarket]], [[Google]], [[Repindex]]
* 2014: [[Broadcom]], [[last.fm]], [[Rangespan]], [[John McMillan]], [[Atheon]], [[OpenMarket]], [[Google]], [[Repindex]]
* 2013: [[Netcraft]], [[Neul.com]], [[Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division]], [[Palantir Technologies]], [[Privacy International]]
* 2013: [[Neul.com]], [[Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division]], [[Palantir Technologies]], [[Privacy International]]


==Archived records of previous years==
==Archived records of previous years==
===2024===
* [[2024 list]] of design briefs
* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/zeCRJYL3suw?si=9TxvJ62LGnVbKHGN
===2023===
* [[2023 list]] of design briefs
* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/WcITCNXbEzM?si=HVz1Ag9u2OgkCXbJ
===2022===
* [[2022 list]] of design briefs
* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/9xs5f6csNiQ?si=pPKhBpp6cJCGnc2c
* [[2022 - final list of clients]]
===2021===
* [[2021 list]] of design briefs
* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtu.be/Wf7zOcZCRTo?si=wCaGdDI9NsChLE58
* [[2021 - final list of clients]]


===2020===
===2020===
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* [[2020 list]] of design briefs
* [[2020 list]] of design briefs
* [[2020 - final list of clients]]
* [[2020 - final list of clients]]
* Final presentations disrupted by Covid-19 pandemic - no video


===2019===
===2019===


* Student briefing booklet 2019: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1819.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2019: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1819.pdf
* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d39LYQ3YBcdWUdREimYF8e4&si=RHH_jzctWiQchuH8
* [[2019 list]] of design briefs
* [[2019 list]] of design briefs
* [[2019 - final list of clients]]
* [[2019 - final list of clients]]
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* Student briefing booklet 2018: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1718.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2018: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1718.pdf
* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d0H15TwI6kEZb38ucaUDshQ&si=fS8uf8Db3PjqguBf
* [[2018 list]] of design briefs
* [[2018 list]] of design briefs
* [[2018 - final list of clients]]
* [[2018 - final list of clients]]
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* Student briefing booklet 2017: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1617.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2017: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1617.pdf
* Playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d0fbeximiXyWR2gB5KjjjE6&si=dQHg-NFFqSafdtek
* [[2017 list]] of design briefs
* [[2017 list]] of design briefs
* [[2017 - final list of clients]]
* [[2017 - final list of clients]]
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The usual reason for cancelling a project is that the topic has not attracted sufficient interest from students. It's worth keeping an eye on these, as some topics, or ways of phrasing them, seem less attractive. But fashions change!
The usual reason for cancelling a project is that the topic has not attracted sufficient interest from students. It's worth keeping an eye on these, as some topics, or ways of phrasing them, seem less attractive. But fashions change!


* 2019: [[Flyathlon]], [[Robot Death Watch]], [[Visual Pick and Place]]
* 2019: [[Flyathlon (2019 version)]], [[Robot Death Watch]], [[Visual Pick and Place]]
* 2018: [[Citizen Speed Safety]], [[Every Car in Cambridge]]
* 2018: [[Citizen Speed Safety]], [[Every Car in Cambridge]]
* 2017: [[Energy with Social Conscience]], [[Science for AD2500]], [[Surgery in the Cloud]]
* 2017: [[Energy with Social Conscience]], [[Science for AD2500]], [[Surgery in the Cloud]]

Revision as of 05:46, 10 May 2024

Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2021

This page currently lists design briefs under development. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome, to group-project@cl.cam.ac.uk

All content on this site has draft status, subject to confirmation by both group project coordinators and project clients. There is no guarantee that these projects will be offered to students, either in the form described here, or at all.

Intellectual property

Notes on Intellectual property

Client briefing

Information on Logistics for Clients

Information for students, and course history: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects

Information for Directors of Studies

Information for the Coordinators

Management timetable for 2023

Master timetable for the course: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/teaching/part-ib/group-projects/important-dates

Work in progress - design briefs for 2024

Notes on: What makes a good project?

In 2024, we expect there will be 138 students, so 23 project teams of 6. We aim to advertise at least 25 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Confirmed design briefs for 2024

  1. Acoustic Land Management
  2. Braille Predictive Text
  3. Climate Foresight
  4. Component Quest
  5. Copilot for Business
  6. Creative Writing Coach
  7. Disability Bias Explorer
  8. DoS D-Stress
  9. Engaging Everyone
  10. Envisioning Nairobi
  11. Heterodox Economic Modeller
  12. Influencing Health
  13. Investment Provenance
  14. Memories Retold
  15. Optimising Music Notation
  16. P2P Social Network
  17. Ramping Up Sustainable Crops
  18. Real-pedia
  19. Supply Chain Resilience
  20. Talking Music
  21. Taste: Movies x Books x Music
  22. Testing for Humans
  23. Visiting the Forest Stream
  24. Wearable Sleep Coach
  25. World Craft

Confirmed clients for 2024 (partial list)

Other design briefs considered for 2024

  1. The Big Chill
  2. Future Health and Fitness
  3. AfroInsight
  4. Leadership Transition Simulator
  5. Environmental Value Added
  6. Just Maps
  7. Non-WEIRD Data Science

Future preparation - design briefs for 2025

Projects to consider in 2025

Potential clients for 2025

Incubator and network contacts

Other client discussions (last updated 2023)

Development notes carried forward from 2021

Other clients from 2021

Previous ideas that have not been used

Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future

Archived records of previous years

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

Selected design briefs from earlier years

Projects that have been offered, but not assigned to groups

The usual reason for cancelling a project is that the topic has not attracted sufficient interest from students. It's worth keeping an eye on these, as some topics, or ways of phrasing them, seem less attractive. But fashions change!

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