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Information for the [[Coordinators]]
Information for the [[Coordinators]]


==Management timetable for 2021==
==Management timetable for 2023==


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


==Work in progress - design briefs for 2022==
==Work in progress - design briefs for 2024==


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


In 2022, we expect there will be 116 students, so 20 project teams: 16 teams of 6 and 4 teams of 5. We aim to advertise at least 22 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.
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 projects for 2022===
===Confirmed design briefs for 2024===


# [[Personal Ambiguator]]
# [[Acoustic Land Management]]
# [[Strawberry Fields]]
# [[Braille Predictive Text]]
# [[Global Ground Truth]]
# [[Climate Foresight]]
# [[Online Programming Game]]
# [[Component Quest]]
# [[Green Maps]]
# [[Copilot for Business]]
# [[Smart Bins]]
# [[Creative Writing Coach]]
# [[Reading the Leaves]]
# [[Disability Bias Explorer]]
# [[The Automatic Accountant]]
# [[DoS D-Stress]]
# [[Youth-led Future]]
# [[Engaging Everyone]]
# [[Flyathlon]]
# [[Envisioning Nairobi]]
# [[Exhibition Inference]]
# [[Heterodox Economic Modeller]]
# [[Conservation Evidence Synthesis]]
# [[Influencing Health]]
# [[Migration Simulation]]
# [[Investment Provenance]]
# [[International Treasury Service]]
# [[Memories Retold]]
# [[Household Payment Pool]]
# [[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]]


===Design briefs being refined===
===Confirmed clients for 2024 (partial list)===


# [[Empathetic Chatbot]]
* [[ClimateInColour]]
# [[Video Bones]]
* [[Cam-AI]]
# [[Creative Community]]
* [[NIAB]]
# [[Carbon Accounting]]
* [[Embecosm]]
# [[Fossil or Future?]]
* [[Lee Wilson]]
* [[Microsoft Research]]
 
===Other design briefs considered for 2024===


===Confirmed clients for 2022===
# [[The Big Chill]]
# [[Future Health and Fitness]]
# [[AfroInsight]]
# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
# [[Environmental Value Added]]
# [[Just Maps]]
# [[Non-WEIRD Data Science]]


* [[ICCCAD]]
==Future preparation - design briefs for 2025==
* [[Antobot]]
* [[IMC]]
* [[Cambridge Enterprise]]
* [[Curriculum for Life]]
* [[RSPB]]
* [[BigPay]]
* [[Royal College of Music]]
* [[British Trust for Ornithology]]


====Expected clients for 2022====
===Projects to consider in 2025===


* [[Dovetailed]]
* [[Living Salad Bar]]
* [[Ab Initio Software]]
* [[Dignified Distributed Work]]
* [[Frontier]]
* [[The Carbon Eye]]
* [[Morgan Stanley]]
* [[ResponsibleAncestry.com]]
* [[Jane Street]]
* [[Guitar tab2hand]]
* [[The Fusion Works]]
* [[NIAB]]
* [[Centre for Policy Futures]]
* [[JP Morgan]]
* [[University Information Services]]


====Potential clients to contact for 2022====
===Potential clients for 2025===


* [[FetoLife]]
* [[Anthony Harris]]
* [[Oodle]]
* [[Rivos Systems]]
* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]]
* [[JAID]]
* [[NHS Digital]]
* [[AMD]]
* [[Refinitiv]]
* [[Raspberry Pi Foundation]]
* [[Jump Trading]]
* Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub
* [[Autodesk]]
* Adham Ashton-Butt, [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* [[DAMTP Image Analysis Group]]
* Adam Devenish, RSPB
* [[Microsoft Africa Research Institute]]
* Maximilian Ge
* [[Amazon]]
* [[Gearset]]
* [[Thales]]
* [[Sainsbury Laboratory]]


===Incubator contacts===
===Incubator and network contacts===


* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
* [[Barn4]]
* [[Barn4]]
* [[Ideaspace]]]
* [[Ideaspace]]
* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
* [[Nicola Buckley]] - policy fellows at CSaP
 
===Other client discussions (last updated 2023)===
 
* [[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]]


===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


===Other clients from 2021===
===Other clients from 2021===


* [[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
===People who have suggested we contact them for 2023===
 
* [[Fair Finance]]


==[[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]]


==Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future==
==Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future==


* 2020: [[Argon Design]]
* 2022: [[Autodesk]]
* 2019: [[Smart Cambridge]], [[Mindi]], [[Fauna and Flora International]], [[Fusepump]], [[Investre]], [[Netcraft]]
* 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]]
* 2018: [[Sparx]], [[Cambridge Consultants]], [[Capita]], [[Nominet Trust]], [[University Information Services]], [[Sport England]]
* 2017: [[BT]], [[Palantir]], [[Elm Partners]], [[Lucid / Cycorp]], [[Microsoft Research]]
* 2017: [[BT]], [[Palantir]], [[Elm Partners]], [[Lucid / Cycorp]], [[Microsoft Research]]
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* 2015: [[Thales]], [[Steve Wade]], [[Cambridge Humanitarian Centre]]
* 2015: [[Thales]], [[Steve Wade]], [[Cambridge Humanitarian Centre]]
* 2014: [[Broadcom]], [[last.fm]], [[Rangespan]], [[John McMillan]], [[Atheon]], [[OpenMarket]], [[Google]], [[Repindex]]
* 2014: [[Broadcom]], [[last.fm]], [[Rangespan]], [[John McMillan]], [[Atheon]], [[OpenMarket]], [[Google]], [[Repindex]]
* 2013: [[Netcraft]], [[Neul.com]], [[Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division]], [[Palantir Technologies]], [[Privacy International]]
* 2013: [[Neul.com]], [[Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division]], [[Palantir Technologies]], [[Privacy International]]


==Archived records of previous years==
==Archived records of previous years==
===2024===
* [[2024 list]] of design briefs
===2023===
* [[2023 list]] of design briefs
===2022===
* [[2022 list]] of design briefs
* [[2022 - final list of clients]]


===2021===
===2021===

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!