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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===


# [[Mobilising the University]]
# [[Acoustic Land Management]]
# [[Urban Stories]]
# [[Braille Predictive Text]]
# [[Creative Community]]
# [[Climate Foresight]]
# [[Social Media Wellbeing Filter]]
# [[Component Quest]]
# [[Wiki Editor-Editor]]
# [[Copilot for Business]]
# [[Carbon Accounting]]
# [[Creative Writing Coach]]
# [[Empathetic Chatbot]]
# [[Disability Bias Explorer]]
# [[SMART Climate Goals]]
# [[DoS D-Stress]]
# [[Video Bones]]
# [[Engaging Everyone]]
# [[Personal Ambiguator]]
# [[Envisioning Nairobi]]
# [[Strawberry Fields]]
# [[Heterodox Economic Modeller]]
# [[Global Ground Truth]]
# [[Influencing Health]]
# One of: [[Online Programming Game]], [[Green Maps]], or [[Smart Bins]]
# [[Investment Provenance]]
# Second of: [[Online Programming Game]], [[Green Maps]], or [[Smart Bins]]
# [[Memories Retold]]
# [[Reading the Leaves]]
# [[Optimising Music Notation]]
# [[The Automatic Accountant]]
# [[P2P Social Network]]
# [[Youth-led Future]]
# [[Ramping Up Sustainable Crops]]
# [[Flyathlon]]
# [[Real-pedia]]
# [[Exhibition Inference]]
# [[Supply Chain Resilience]]
# [[Conservation Evidence Synthesis]]
# [[Talking Music]]
# [[Migration Simulation]]
# [[Taste: Movies x Books x Music]]
# One of: [[International Treasury Service]], or [[Household Payment Pool]]
# [[Testing for Humans]]
# [[Visiting the Forest Stream]]
# [[Wearable Sleep Coach]]
# [[World Craft]]


===Confirmed clients for 2024 (partial list)===


===Design briefs deferred to 2023===
* [[ClimateInColour]]
* [[Cam-AI]]
* [[NIAB]]
* [[Embecosm]]
* [[Lee Wilson]]
* [[Microsoft Research]]
 
===Other design briefs considered for 2024===
 
# [[The Big Chill]]
# [[Future Health and Fitness]]
# [[AfroInsight]]
# [[Leadership Transition Simulator]]
# [[Environmental Value Added]]
# [[Just Maps]]
# [[Non-WEIRD Data Science]]
 
==Future preparation - design briefs for 2025==


# [[Trading Reasons]]
===Projects to consider in 2025===


===Confirmed clients for 2022===
* [[Living Salad Bar]]
* [[Dignified Distributed Work]]
* [[The Carbon Eye]]
* [[ResponsibleAncestry.com]]
* [[Guitar tab2hand]]


===Potential clients for 2025===
* [[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
===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]]
* [[Daniel Hall]]
* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
* Neil Walker
* [[Milk and More]]
* [[Jane Street]]
* [[Fair Finance]]
* [[The Fusion Works]]
* [[The Fusion Works]]
* [[Frontier]]
* [[Frontier]]
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* [[ICCCAD]]
* [[ICCCAD]]
* [[Antobot]]
* [[Antobot]]
* [[IMC]]
* [[Morgan Stanley]]
* [[Morgan Stanley]]
* [[Cambridge Enterprise]]
* [[Curriculum for Life]]
* [[Curriculum for Life]]
* [[RSPB]]
* [[RSPB]]
* [[BigPay]]
* [[BigPay]]
* [[Royal College of Music]]
* [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* [[British Trust for Ornithology]]
* [[University Information Services]]
* [[University Information Services]]
====Potential clients to contact for 2023====
* [[Jane Street]]
* [[London Stock Exchange Group]]
* [[Fair Finance]]
* Lost contact with[[Ab Initio Software]]
* Discussions with [[NIAB]] for 2022 are all [[Barn4]] members
===Incubator contacts===
* [[Centre for Global Equality]]
* [[Barn4]]
* [[Ideaspace]]
* [[Emma Salgard Cunha]] - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise


===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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* 2021: [[FetoLife]], [[Oodle]], [[NHS Digital]], [[Jump Trading]], [[Microsoft Africa Research Institute]]
* 2021: [[FetoLife]], [[Oodle]], [[NHS Digital]], [[Jump Trading]], [[Microsoft Africa Research Institute]]
* 2020: [[Argon Design]], [[Gearset]], [[Thales]], [[Sainsbury Laboratory]]
* 2020: [[Argon Design]], [[Gearset]], [[Thales]], [[Sainsbury Laboratory]]
* 2019: [[Smart Cambridge]], [[Mindi]], [[Fauna and Flora International]], [[Fusepump]], [[Investre]], [[Netcraft]]
* 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===


* [[2022 list]] of design briefs
* [[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!

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