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==Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2016==
==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  


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 95 students to participate this year. These will probably be arranged into 16 groups - 15 with 6 members, and 1 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.


==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


Information for [[Directors of Studies]]


==Work in progress - design briefs for 2016==
Information for the [[Coordinators]]


===Potential project clients for 2016===
==Management timetable for 2023==


* Morgan Stanley - interested in sponsoring a good cause project
Master timetable for the course:
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/teaching/part-ib/group-projects/important-dates


* Tim Wilkinson <tim.wilkinson@unep-wcmc.org>
==Work in progress - design briefs for 2024==


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


* BT
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.


* [[IMC]]
===Confirmed design briefs for 2024===


* [[King Digital Entertainment]]
# [[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]]


==Management timetable for 2016==
===Confirmed clients for 2024 (partial list)===


http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/timetable.html
* [[ClimateInColour]]
* [[Cam-AI]]
* [[NIAB]]
* [[Embecosm]]
* [[Lee Wilson]]
* [[Microsoft Research]]


==Further project ideas to consider==
===Other design briefs considered for 2024===


===Project ideas for 2015 that were not offered ===
# [[The Big Chill]]
# [[Future Health and Fitness]]
# [[AfroInsight]]
# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
# [[Environmental Value Added]]
# [[Just Maps]]
# [[Non-WEIRD Data Science]]


* [[Machine morse]]
==Future preparation - design briefs for 2025==


* [[Marker of the Beast]]
===Projects to consider in 2025===


===Project ideas for 2014 that were not offered ===
* [[Living Salad Bar]]
* [[Dignified Distributed Work]]
* [[The Carbon Eye]]
* [[ResponsibleAncestry.com]]
* [[Guitar tab2hand]]


* [[Digital Sheet Music Viewer]]
===Potential clients for 2025===


* [[Rent-A-Mob]]
* [[Anthony Harris]]
* [[Rivos Systems]]
* [[JAID]]
* [[AMD]]
* [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]]
* Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub
* Adham Ashton-Butt, [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* Adam Devenish, RSPB
* Maximilian Ge


* [[Zombie for a Day]]
===Incubator and network contacts===


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


* [[Robot Bartender]]
===Other client discussions (last updated 2023)===


* [[CheckMate]]
* [[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]]
* [[JP Morgan]]
* [[Centre for Policy Futures]]
* [[Gardin]]
* [[ICCCAD]]
* [[Antobot]]
* [[Morgan Stanley]]
* [[Curriculum for Life]]
* [[RSPB]]
* [[BigPay]]
* [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* [[University Information Services]]


* [[Wine Goggles]]
===Development notes carried forward from 2021===


* [[Graphical Programming for Budding Engineers on Raspberry Pi]]
* [[Frontier]] - second project
* [[NIAB]] - second project
* [[Informetis]] - topic discussed
* [[Giving Voice to Digital Democracies]] - topic suggested, no response
* [[ARM]] - contact identified, but no topic


* [[Cambridge Overlay]]
===Other clients from 2021===


* [[Low energy ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) library]]
* [[MathWorks]]


* [[Application for the new 32-bit XAP6 Processor]]
* [[Boeing]]
* [[TechWolf]]
* [[DX Analytics]]
* [[Umbrella Analytics]]
* [[Lyzeum Ltd]]
* [[Broadcom]] - all contact emails now bounce


===Potential projects from 2013 that were not offered===
==[[Previous ideas that have not been used]]==


* [[Fix the past with Raspberry Pi]]


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


* [[Raspberry Pi orchestra]]
==Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future==


* [[Infect your friends]]
* 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]]


* [[Mashup tutorial builder]]
==Archived records of previous years==


==Further client contacts==
===2024===


===Potential clients from 2015 that did not proceed===
* [[2024 list]] of design briefs


* [[Thales]] - no project proposed
===2023===


* [[Illumina]] - no project proposed
* [[2023 list]] of design briefs


* [[Steve Wade]] - no project proposed
===2022===


* [[Cambridge Humanitarian Centre]] - working with clients from ARM
* [[2022 list]] of design briefs
* [[2022 - final list of clients]]


===Potential clients from 2014 that did not proceed===
===2021===


* [[Broadcom]]
* 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]]


* [[last.fm]]
===2020===


* [[Dovetailed]]
* 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]]


* [[Rangespan]]
===2019===


* [[John McMillan]]
* 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]]


* [[Atheon]]
===2018===


* [[OpenMarket]]
* Student briefing booklet 2018: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1718.pdf
* [[2018 list]] of design briefs
* [[2018 - final list of clients]]


* [[Google]]
===2017===


* [[Repindex]]
* Student briefing booklet 2017: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1617.pdf
* [[2017 list]] of design briefs
* [[2017 - final list of clients]]


===Potential clients from 2013 that did not proceed===
===2016===


* [[Netcraft]]
* 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]]


* [[Neul.com]]
===2015===
 
* [[Google]]
 
* [[Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division]]
 
* [[Palantir Technologies]]
 
* [[Morgan Stanley]]
 
* [[Privacy International]]
 
 
 
==Group Design Projects 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 - final list of clients]]
* [[2015 - final list of clients]]


==Group Design Projects 2014==
===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 clients]]
* [[2014 - final list of clients]]


==Group Design Projects 2013==
===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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==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]]

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!

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