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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.

New clients recruited for 2014

• altfusion

• last.fm

• Epistora

• Dovetailed

• Rangespan

Potential clients from 2013 that were not offered

• 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

Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2013

Number of groups in 2013

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

Subsequent note - two of the design briefs can only be implemented in the C# language. We can't require students to learn C#, so these projects cannot proceed if we don't get a full team of volunteers. This means we can't count those two as full contributors to the above target, so new target is 19/20.

Student briefing booklet 2013

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1213.pdf

Video of final presentations from 2013

http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/collection/1435486

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

Design briefs from 2013

• 2013 - final list of design briefs

Clients confirmed with completed design briefs

• Frontier

• Jeff Patmore, Engineering Design Centre

• IBM

• Kettles Yard Gallery

• Engineering Design Centre

• Microsoft Research

• Microsoft Research Cambridge (2 projects)

• Cisco

• Nigel Day, ENEA

• Last.fm

• VisualDNA

• Peter Cowley

• United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre

• David Rubin, Bloomberg

• Cambridge Science Centre

• Qualcomm

• BT

Not proceeding in the current year

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