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===Confirmed design briefs for 2024===
===Confirmed design briefs for 2024===


# [[Acoustic Land Management]]
# [[Braille Predictive Text]]
# [[Climate Foresight]]
# [[Component Quest]]
# [[Copilot for Business]]
# [[Creative Writing Coach]]
# [[Disability Bias Explorer]]
# [[Disability Bias Explorer]]
# [[Memories Retold]]
# [[DoS D-Stress]]
# [[Living Salad Bar]]
# [[Engaging Everyone]]
# [[Envisioning Nairobi]]
# [[Heterodox Economic Modeller]]
# [[Heterodox Economic Modeller]]
# [[Envisioning Nairobi]]
# [[Influencing Health]]
# [[Investment Provenance]]
# [[Investment Provenance]]
# [[Memories Retold]]
# [[Optimising Music Notation]]
# [[Optimising Music Notation]]
# [[Testing for Humans]]
# [[P2P Social Network]]
# [[Ramping Up Sustainable Crops]]
# [[Ramping Up Sustainable Crops]]
# [[Real-pedia]]
# [[Supply Chain Resilience]]
# [[Talking Music]]
# [[Talking Music]]
# [[Taste: Movies x Books x Music]]
# [[Testing for Humans]]
# [[Visiting the Forest Stream]]
# [[Visiting the Forest Stream]]
# [[Creative Writing Coach]]
# [[Wearable Sleep Coach]]
# [[Copilot for Business]]
# [[World Craft]]
# [[DoS D-Stress]]
 
===Confirmed clients for 2024 (partial list)===
 
* [[ClimateInColour]]
* [[Cam-AI]]
* [[NIAB]]
* [[Embecosm]]
* [[Lee Wilson]]
* [[Microsoft Research]]


===Design briefs being considered for 2024===
===Other design briefs considered for 2024===


# [[The Big Chill]]
# [[Future Health and Fitness]]
# [[AfroInsight]]
# [[AfroInsight]]
# [[Dignified Distributed Work]]
# [[Dry Cycle]]
# [[Listening to the Land]]
# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
# [[Environmental Value Added]]
# [[Environmental Value Added]]
# [[Just Maps]]
# [[Just Maps]]
# [[The Carbon Eye]]
# [[ResponsibleAncestry.com]]
# [[Guitar tab2hand]]
# [[Non-WEIRD Data Science]]
# [[Non-WEIRD Data Science]]


===Possible clients for 2024===
==Future preparation - design briefs for 2025==
 
===Projects to consider in 2025===
 
* [[Living Salad Bar]]
* [[Dignified Distributed Work]]
* [[The Carbon Eye]]
* [[ResponsibleAncestry.com]]
* [[Guitar tab2hand]]
 
===Potential clients for 2025===


* [[Embecosm]]
* [[Anthony Harris]]
* [[SMARTRI Indonesia]]
* [[Rivos Systems]]
* [[JAID]]
* [[AMD]]
* [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]]
* [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]]
* Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub
* Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub
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* Adam Devenish, RSPB
* Adam Devenish, RSPB
* Maximilian Ge
* Maximilian Ge
===Incubator and network contacts===
* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
* [[Barn4]]
* [[Ideaspace]]
* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
* [[Nicola Buckley]] - policy fellows at CSaP
===Other client discussions (last updated 2023)===
* [[SMARTRI Indonesia]]
* [[Mark Gotham]]
* [[Mark Gotham]]
* [[Lee Wilson]]
* [[Daniel Hall]]
* [[Daniel Hall]]
* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
* Neil Walker
* Neil Walker
* [[IMC]] Project 1
* [[IMC]] Project 2?
* [[Milk and More]]
* [[Milk and More]]
* [[Jane Street]]
* [[Jane Street]]
* [[Fair Finance]]
* [[Fair Finance]]
* Discussions with [[NIAB]] for 2022 are all [[Barn4]] members
* [[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]]
===Confirmed clients for 2024===
* [[ClimateInColour]]
* [[Cam-AI]]
* [[NIAB]]
===Incubator and network contacts===
* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
* [[Barn4]]
* [[Ideaspace]]
* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
* [[Nicola Buckley]] - policy fellows at CSaP
===Projects that were offered in 2023===
# [[A Teaspoon of Video]]
# [[AI Hype Monitor]]
# [[Automatic Entrepreneur]]
# [[Autonomous Trucking]]
# [[Don’t Stop the Music]]
# [[Electric Motor Optimisation]]
# [[Email Diplomacy]]
# [[Fossil or Future?]]
# [[Genomics for the COVID Endemic]]
# [[iMoji]]
# [[Just Maps]]
# [[Keeping Key-Workers]]
# [[Likeness Trainer]]
# [[ModularSynth.io]]
# [[NFTs for Digital CVs]]
# [[Physical Computing for Beginners]]
# [[Rational Trading]]
# [[Real Life Arabic]]
# [[Responsible AI Copilot]]
# [[Responsible Construction]]
# [[Robot Farm Monitor]]
# [[Signs of our Times]]
# [[Speak in the Country]]


===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==
===2024===
* [[2024 list]] of design briefs


===2023===
===2023===

Latest revision as of 15:59, 21 March 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!