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Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2015

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.

Clients intending to propose projects in 2015

• Bloomberg

Management timetable

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

Group Design Projects 2014

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

Projects assigned in 2014

• Multi Chat

• Recipe Curator

• Multi-touch Conference

• Money World

• Virtual Reality Trading Desk

• Algo-Trading Game

• 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

Clients for 2014 with projects confirmed

• altfusion

• Potential Difference

• IMC (Netherlands)

• MathWorks

• Frontier

• Entrepreneur First

• Sparrho

• G-Research

• Open Book Publishers

• Cambridge Architectural Research

• BT

• Illumina

• Cambridge Consultants

Potential clients from 2014 that did not proceed

• 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

Projects offered in 2014 not assigned to groups

• Locally Augmented Retail

• Set Builder

• Employability Coach

• Dance Practice Assistant

• History Scraper

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

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

Group Design Projects 2013

• 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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