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Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2014

This page currently lists design briefs under development - all content is to be considered as 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.

Group Design Projects 2014

We expect 86 students to participate this year. These will probably be arranged into 15 groups - 11 with 6 members, and 4 with 5 members. We plan to offer at least 17 design briefs - preferably 18 or 19 - to allow for some student choice, technical lossage or client withdrawal.

Proposed project ideas for 2014 ready to go (20 proposed - could remove 1 or 2)

• Set Builder

• Multi Chat

• Recipe Curator

• Dance Practice Assistant

• Multi-touch Conference

• Money World

• Virtual Reality Trading Desk

• Algo-Trading Game

• Employability Coach

• Locally Augmented Retail

• Intelligent Graph Reader

• The technical textbook of the future

• Resilient and Rapid Raspberries

• Unlocking the graphics power of the Raspberry Pi

• Purchase Abandonment Predictor

• Evolve a Pet

• Sound Garden

• Project Darknet

• Transport Game

• History Scraper

Project ideas that don't seem likely to proceed in 2014

• 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

Clients for 2014 with projects confirmed

• altfusion

• Potential Difference

• IMC (Netherlands)

• MathWorks

• Frontier

• Entrepreneur First

• Epistora

• G-Research

• Open Book Publishers

• Cambridge Architectural Research

• BT

• Illumina

• Cambridge Consultants

Clients intending to propose projects in 2015

• Bloomberg

Clients in discussion for 2014, without projects confirmed

• Broadcom

• last.fm

• Dovetailed

• Rangespan

• John McMillan

• Atheon

• OpenMarket

• Google

• Repindex

Potential clients from 2013 that did not proceed

• Netcraft

• Neul.com

• Google

• Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division

• Palantir Technologies

• Morgan Stanley

• Privacy International

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

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

Management timetable

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/timetable.html

Group Design Projects 2013

We expected 80 students to participate this year - these will probably be arranged into 14 groups - 10 with 6 members, and 4 with 5 members. We needed to offer at least 16 design briefs - preferably 17 or 18 - to allow for some student choice, technical lossage or client withdrawal.

• Student briefing booklet 2013: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1213.pdf
• Video of presentations: http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1435486
• 2013 - final list of design briefs
• 2013 - final list of clients

Previous years

Useful examples of project formats - a set of design briefs from a previous year: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/2010-design-briefs.html

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