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==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2015==
==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  


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.
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.
We expect 93 students to participate this year. These will probably be arranged into 16 groups - 13 with 6 members, and 3 with 5 members. We plan to offer at least 18 design briefs - preferably 19 or 20 - to allow for some student choice, technical lossage or client withdrawal.
==Management timetable==
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/timetable.html


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


==Work in progress - design briefs for 2015==
Information for [[Directors of Studies]]


===Project ideas under development, without clients identified===
Information for the [[Coordinators]]


* [[Online advice assistant]]
==Management timetable for 2023==


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


* [[Marker of the Beast]]
==Work in progress - design briefs for 2025==


* [[Multiplayer Rift]]
Notes on: [[What makes a good project?]]


===Clients intending to propose projects in 2015===
In 2025, we expect there will be 124 students, so 21 project teams (19 teams of 6 and 2 teams of 5). We aim to advertise at least 23 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.


* [[BAE Systems]]
===Confirmed design briefs for 2025===


* [[BAML]]
Final [[2025 list]]


* [[Future First / JPMorgan]]
# [[Agent of Things]]
# [[Atmospheric Metaverse]]
# [[BS-meter]]
# [[Care Phone]]
# [[Chat-twin]]
# [[Checkpoint Alternatives]]
# [[ChessPuzzy]]
# [[Code Explain AI Assistant]]
# [[Computing Physical Calculus]]
# [[Conversational Patient History]]
# [[CUDA Support for ClangIR]]
# [[Delivery Radar]]
# [[Driverless Humans]]
# [[Grasping Concept Spaces]]
# [[Navigating Evolving Music]]
# [[Paper Simulator]]
# [[Personalised EULA Visualisation]]
# [[PromptPatrol]]
# [[Robot Science Ambassador]]
# [[Soft Music Notation]]
# [[Speech Error Detection and Correction]]
# [[Talk Interactive]]
# [[Training Investigative Interviewers]]
# [[Visual Analytics for Hardware Design]]
# [[Zeitgeist Map]]


* [[Illumina]]
===Projects under discussion===


* [[Bloomberg]]
# [[Sustainable Electronic Recycling]]
# [[Semantic Refactoring]]


* [[Steve Wade]]
===Design briefs suggested to several potential clients===


* [[Cambridge Humanitarian Centre]]
# [[The Carbon Eye]]
# [[ResponsibleAncestry.com]]
# [[Guitar tab2hand]]
# [[Who Pays for Roads?]]


* [[Fusepump]]
===Design briefs considered in 2024 that might be developed===


* [[Metaswitch Networks]]
# [[Dignified Distributed Work]]
# [[The Big Chill]]
# [[Future Health and Fitness]]
# [[AfroInsight]]
# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
# [[Environmental Value Added]]
# [[Just Maps]]
# [[Non-WEIRD Data Science]]
# [[Living Salad Bar]]


* [[Amazon]]


* [[ARM]]
===Potential clients for 2025===


* [[Morgan Stanley]]
* [[Alder Hey Children's Hospital]]
* [[Frontier]]
* [[Embecosm]]
* [[SEAT]]
* [[Anthony Harris]]
* [[Rivos Systems]]
* [[AMD]]
* [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]]
* Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub
* Adham Ashton-Butt, [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* Adam Devenish, RSPB
* Maximilian Ge
* [[Matthew Postgate]]


* [[TPP]]
===Future preparation - design briefs for 2026===


* [[CSR]]
* [[Who Pays for Roads?]]
* [[Software Inconsistency Resolver]]


===Projects already confirmed for 2015===
===Incubator and network contacts===


* [[Extrusion finder]]
* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
* [[Barn4]]
* [[Ideaspace]]
* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
* [[Nicola Buckley]] - policy fellows at CSaP


* [[Micro-friends video diary]]
===Other client discussions (last updated 2023)===
 
* [[Audio Websites on Smartphones]]
 
===Clients already confirmed for 2015===
 
* [[Boeing]]
 
* [[Metaswitch Networks]]
 
==Further project ideas to reconsider==
 
===Project ideas for 2014 that were not offered ===
 
* [[Digital Sheet Music Viewer]]
 
* [[Rent-A-Mob]]
 
* [[Zombie for a Day]]
 
* [[Raspberry Pi Orchestra]]
 
* [[Robot Bartender]]
 
* [[CheckMate]]
 
* [[Wine Goggles]]
 
* [[Graphical Programming for Budding Engineers on Raspberry Pi]]
 
* [[Cambridge Overlay]]
 
* [[Low energy ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) library]]
 
* [[Application for the new 32-bit XAP6 Processor]]
 
===Potential projects from 2013 that were not offered===
 
* [[Fix the past with Raspberry Pi]]
 
* [[Transparent public identity]]
 
* [[Raspberry Pi orchestra]]
 
* [[Infect your friends]]
 
* [[Mashup tutorial builder]]
 
==Further client contacts==
 
===Potential clients from 2014 that did not proceed===
 
* [[Broadcom]]
 
* [[last.fm]]


* [[SMARTRI Indonesia]]
* [[Mark Gotham]]
* [[Daniel Hall]]
* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
* Neil Walker
* [[Milk and More]]
* [[Jane Street]]
* [[Fair Finance]]
* [[The Fusion Works]]
* [[Frontier]]
* [[Amazon]]
* [[Dovetailed]]
* [[Dovetailed]]
* [[JP Morgan]]
* [[Centre for Policy Futures]]
* [[Gardin]]
* [[ICCCAD]]
* [[Antobot]]
* [[Morgan Stanley]]
* [[Curriculum for Life]]
* [[RSPB]]
* [[BigPay]]
* [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* [[University Information Services]]


* [[Rangespan]]
===Development notes carried forward from 2021===


* [[John McMillan]]
* [[Frontier]] - second project
* [[NIAB]] - second project
* [[Informetis]] - topic discussed
* [[Giving Voice to Digital Democracies]] - topic suggested, no response
* [[ARM]] - contact identified, but no topic


* [[Atheon]]
===Other clients from 2021===


* [[OpenMarket]]
* [[MathWorks]]


* [[Google]]
* [[Boeing]]
* [[TechWolf]]
* [[DX Analytics]]
* [[Umbrella Analytics]]
* [[Lyzeum Ltd]]
* [[Broadcom]] - all contact emails now bounce


* [[Repindex]]
==[[Previous ideas that have not been used]]==


===Potential clients from 2013 that did not proceed===


* [[Netcraft]]
* [[Calendar Dialogue]] - [[Amazon]]
* [[Auto-Emoji]]
* [[Archaeological databases]]
* [[The Headless Bicycle]]
* [[Emo Face]]
* Character Locomotion Middleware - [[Frontier]]
* Automatic accessibility assessor - [[Frontier]]
* City generation - [[Frontier]]


* [[Neul.com]]
==Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future==


* [[Google]]
* 2022: [[Autodesk]]
* 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]]
* 2017: [[BT]], [[Palantir]], [[Elm Partners]], [[Lucid / Cycorp]], [[Microsoft Research]]
* 2016: [[Care Quality Commission]], [[King Digital Entertainment]], [[The Fusion Works]]
* 2015: [[Thales]], [[Steve Wade]], [[Cambridge Humanitarian Centre]]
* 2014: [[Broadcom]], [[last.fm]], [[Rangespan]], [[John McMillan]], [[Atheon]], [[OpenMarket]], [[Google]], [[Repindex]]
* 2013: [[Neul.com]], [[Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division]], [[Palantir Technologies]], [[Privacy International]]


* [[Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division]]
==Archived records of previous years==


* [[Palantir Technologies]]


* [[Morgan Stanley]]
* [[2024 list]] of design briefs and playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeCRJYL3suw&list=PLstyePOvf2d3jOfc6j8cG7CmmVD6LyMe_
* [[2023 list]] of design briefs and playlist of video presentations (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcITCNXbEzM&list=PLstyePOvf2d2ZvC92BQkpR6WiaiROytev
* [[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
* [[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


* [[Privacy International]]
* 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 - final list of clients]]


* 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 - final list of clients]]


* Student briefing booklet 2016: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1516.pdf
* Video of presentations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxcEQE4FigU&list=PLstyePOvf2d2QbiVFI4naska1n4G0fhSW
* [[2016 list]] of design briefs
* [[2016 - final list of clients]]


==Group Design Projects 2014==
* Student briefing booklet 2015: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1415.pdf
* Video of presentations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d0cPplAB3DxHoaJC6hTYomP
* [[2015 list]] of design briefs
* [[2015 - final list of clients]]


* 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]]
==Group Design Projects 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
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==Selected design briefs from earlier years==
==Selected design briefs from earlier years==


* [[2011]]
* [[2010]]
* [[2010]]
* [[2009]]
* [[2009]]
* [[2008]]
* [[2008]]
* [[2007]]
* [[2006]]
* [[2006]]


==Projects that have been offered, but not assigned to groups==
==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!


===Projects offered in 2014 not assigned to groups===
* 2019: [[Flyathlon (2019 version)]], [[Robot Death Watch]], [[Visual Pick and Place]]
 
* 2018: [[Citizen Speed Safety]], [[Every Car in Cambridge]]
* [[Locally Augmented Retail]]
* 2017: [[Energy with Social Conscience]], [[Science for AD2500]], [[Surgery in the Cloud]]
 
* 2016: [[Pocket Brain Surgeon]], [[Reducing food waste with IoT]], [[The Busking Bus-Stop]], [[Safer Chicken from Farm to Fork]]
* [[Set Builder]]
* 2015: [[Reinfection Monitor]], [[Online Identity for the Base of the Pyramid]], [[Audio Websites on Smartphones]]
 
* 2014: [[Locally Augmented Retail]], [[Set Builder]], [[Employability Coach]], [[Dance Practice Assistant]], [[History Scraper]]
* [[Employability Coach]]
* 2013: [[Touch screen prototyping at school]], [[Measuring glass-to-glass video-conference latency]], [[The Poet Laureate's web thresholds]], [[Countryside web server]], [[Science exhibit interaction adviser]], [[Personal status server]]
 
* [[Dance Practice Assistant]]
 
* [[History Scraper]]
 
===Projects offered in 2013 not assigned to groups===
 
* [[Touch screen prototyping at school]]
 
* [[Measuring glass-to-glass video-conference latency]]
 
* [[The Poet Laureate's web thresholds]]
 
* [[Countryside web server]]
 
* [[Science exhibit interaction adviser]]
 
* [[Personal status server]]

Latest revision as of 08:56, 8 November 2024

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 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 2025

Notes on: What makes a good project?

In 2025, we expect there will be 124 students, so 21 project teams (19 teams of 6 and 2 teams of 5). We aim to advertise at least 23 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Confirmed design briefs for 2025

Final 2025 list

  1. Agent of Things
  2. Atmospheric Metaverse
  3. BS-meter
  4. Care Phone
  5. Chat-twin
  6. Checkpoint Alternatives
  7. ChessPuzzy
  8. Code Explain AI Assistant
  9. Computing Physical Calculus
  10. Conversational Patient History
  11. CUDA Support for ClangIR
  12. Delivery Radar
  13. Driverless Humans
  14. Grasping Concept Spaces
  15. Navigating Evolving Music
  16. Paper Simulator
  17. Personalised EULA Visualisation
  18. PromptPatrol
  19. Robot Science Ambassador
  20. Soft Music Notation
  21. Speech Error Detection and Correction
  22. Talk Interactive
  23. Training Investigative Interviewers
  24. Visual Analytics for Hardware Design
  25. Zeitgeist Map

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

Future preparation - design briefs for 2026

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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