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==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2021==
==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2025==


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 2023==
==Management timetable for 2025==


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


==Work in progress - design briefs for 2023==
==Work in progress - design briefs for 2026==


Notes on: [[What makes a good project?]]
Notes on: [[What makes a good project?]]


In 2023, we expect there will be 119 students, so 20 project teams: 19 teams of 6 and 1 team of 5. We aim to advertise at least 22 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.
In 2026, we expect there will be ??? students, so ?? project teams (?? teams of 6 and ?? teams of 5). We aim to advertise at least ?? design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.


===Confirmed projects for 2023===
===Proposed design briefs for 2026===


# [[Keeping Key-Workers]]
# [[Drawing Machines]]
# [[Real Life Arabic]]
 
# [[NFTs for Digital CVs]]
===Candidates under discussion===
 
* [[Who Pays for Roads?]]
* [[Software Inconsistency Resolver]]
* [[ARM]]
* [[Frontier]]
* Jack Ashby, Zoology museum
* Chris Pointon, Green Economy Infrastructure
* Simon Pulman-Jones, Evinova / Astra Zeneca
* Leontien Talboom, University Library
 
 
===Projects under discussion===
 
# [[Sustainable Electronic Recycling]]
# [[Semantic Refactoring]]
 
===Design briefs suggested to several potential clients===
 
# [[The Carbon Eye]]
# [[ResponsibleAncestry.com]]
# [[Guitar tab2hand]]
# [[Who Pays for Roads?]]
 
===Design briefs considered in 2024 that might be developed===
 
# [[Dignified Distributed Work]]
# [[The Big Chill]]
# [[Future Health and Fitness]]
# [[AfroInsight]]
# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
# [[AI Hype Monitor]]
# [[Environmental Value Added]]
# [[Robot Farm Monitor]]
# [[Just Maps]]
# [[Fossil or Future?]]
# [[Non-WEIRD Data Science]]
# [[A Teaspoon of Video]]
# [[Living Salad Bar]]
# [[Autonomous Trucking]]
 
# [[Signs of our Times]]
 
# [[Responsible AI Copilot]]
===Potential clients for 2025===
# [[Email Diplomacy]]
# [[Genomics for the COVID Endemic]]
# [[Electric Motor Optimisation]]
# [[Responsible Construction]]
# [[Likeness Trainer]]


===Clients in discussion for 2023===
Final [[2025 list]]


* Luminance
* [[Alder Hey Children's Hospital]]
* [[Embecosm]]
* [[SEAT]]
* [[Anthony Harris]]
* [[Rivos Systems]]
* [[AMD]]
* [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]]
* [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]]
* Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub
* Adham Ashton-Butt, [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* Adham Ashton-Butt, [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* Adam Devenish, RSPB
* Maximilian Ge
* Maximilian Ge
* Adam Devenish, RSPB
* [[Matthew Postgate]]
* Neil Walker
 
* Patrick Wollner
* [[IMC]] Project 1
* [[IMC]] Project 2?
* Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub


===Potential design briefs for 2023===
===Incubator and network contacts===


# [[Trading Reasons]]
* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
# [[Environmental Value Added]]
* [[Barn4]]
# [[Auto-Emoji]]
* [[Ideaspace]]
# [[Don’t Stop the Music]]
* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
* [[Nicola Buckley]] - policy fellows at CSaP


====Potential clients to contact for 2023====
===Other client discussions (last updated 2023)===


* [[SMARTRI Indonesia]]
* [[Mark Gotham]]
* [[Daniel Hall]]
* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
* Neil Walker
* [[Milk and More]]
* [[Jane Street]]
* [[Jane Street]]
* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
* [[Fair Finance]]
* [[Fair Finance]]
* Discussions with [[NIAB]] for 2022 are all [[Barn4]] members
* [[Milk and More]]
* [[MQA]]
===Potential returning clients from 2022===
* [[The Fusion Works]]
* [[The Fusion Works]]
* [[Frontier]]
* [[Frontier]]
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* [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* [[University Information Services]]
* [[University Information Services]]
===Incubator and network contacts===
* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
* [[Barn4]]
* [[Ideaspace]]
* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
* [[Nicola Buckley]] - policy fellows at CSaP


===Development notes carried forward from 2021===
===Development notes carried forward from 2021===
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* [[Informetis]] - topic discussed
* [[Informetis]] - topic discussed
* [[Giving Voice to Digital Democracies]] - topic suggested, no response
* [[Giving Voice to Digital Democracies]] - topic suggested, no response
* [[Broadcom]] - all contact emails now bounce
* [[ARM]] - contact identified, but no topic
* [[ARM]] - contact identified, but no topic


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* [[MathWorks]]
* [[MathWorks]]
* [[Microsoft Research]]
 
* [[Boeing]]
* [[Boeing]]
* [[TechWolf]]
* [[TechWolf]]
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* [[Umbrella Analytics]]
* [[Umbrella Analytics]]
* [[Lyzeum Ltd]]
* [[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]]


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==Archived records of previous years==
==Archived records of previous years==


===2022===
* [[2025 list]] of design briefs and playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d1HSBklMXWbdLd_4T2X8pIT
 
* [[2024 list]] of design briefs and playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeCRJYL3suw&list=PLstyePOvf2d3jOfc6j8cG7CmmVD6LyMe_
* [[2022 list]] of design briefs
* [[2023 list]] of design briefs and playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcITCNXbEzM&list=PLstyePOvf2d2ZvC92BQkpR6WiaiROytev
* [[2022 - final list of clients]]
* [[2022 list]] of design briefs, [[2022 - final list of clients]] and playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xs5f6csNiQ&list=PLstyePOvf2d3oPJOBgNoeA-aPA7lhUIGS
 
* [[2021 list]] of design briefs, [[2021 - final list of clients]] and playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf7zOcZCRTo&list=PLstyePOvf2d2o9O_K3GEY3wAtbqkkYjPm
===2021===
* [[2020 list]] of design briefs, [[2020 - final list of clients]] (presentations disrupted by Covid-19 - no video). Student briefing booklet 2020: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1920.pdf
 
* [[2019 list]] of design briefs, [[2019 - final list of clients]], briefing booklet http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1819.pdf, playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d39LYQ3YBcdWUdREimYF8e4&si=RHH_jzctWiQchuH8
* Presentations from 2021: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/teaching/part-ib/group-projects/presentations
* [[2021 list]] of design briefs
* [[2021 - final list of clients]]
 
===2020===
 
* Student briefing booklet 2020: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1920.pdf
* [[2020 list]] of design briefs
* [[2020 - final list of clients]]
 
===2019===
 
* Student briefing booklet 2019: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1819.pdf
* [[2019 list]] of design briefs
* [[2019 - final list of clients]]
 
===2018===


* 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]]
===2017===


* 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]]
===2016===


* Student briefing booklet 2016: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1516.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2016: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1516.pdf
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* [[2016 list]] of design briefs
* [[2016 list]] of design briefs
* [[2016 - final list of clients]]
* [[2016 - final list of clients]]
===2015===


* Student briefing booklet 2015: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1415.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2015: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1415.pdf
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* [[2015 list]] of design briefs
* [[2015 list]] of design briefs
* [[2015 - final list of clients]]
* [[2015 - final list of clients]]
===2014===


* Student briefing booklet 2014: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1314.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2014: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1314.pdf
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* [[2014 - final list of design briefs]]
* [[2014 - final list of design briefs]]
* [[2014 - final list of clients]]
* [[2014 - final list of clients]]
===2013===


* Student briefing booklet 2013: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1213.pdf
* Student briefing booklet 2013: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1213.pdf

Latest revision as of 16:26, 21 April 2025

Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2025

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 2025

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

Work in progress - design briefs for 2026

Notes on: What makes a good project?

In 2026, we expect there will be ??? students, so ?? project teams (?? teams of 6 and ?? teams of 5). We aim to advertise at least ?? design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Proposed design briefs for 2026

  1. Drawing Machines

Candidates under discussion


Projects under discussion

  1. Sustainable Electronic Recycling
  2. Semantic Refactoring

Design briefs suggested to several potential clients

  1. The Carbon Eye
  2. ResponsibleAncestry.com
  3. Guitar tab2hand
  4. Who Pays for Roads?

Design briefs considered in 2024 that might be developed

  1. Dignified Distributed Work
  2. The Big Chill
  3. Future Health and Fitness
  4. AfroInsight
  5. Leadership Transition Simulator
  6. Environmental Value Added
  7. Just Maps
  8. Non-WEIRD Data Science
  9. Living Salad Bar


Potential clients for 2025

Final 2025 list


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

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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