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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 2023

Notes on: What makes a good project?

In 2023, we expect there will be 119 students, so 20 project teams: 19 teams of 6 and 1 team of 5. We aim to advertise at least 22 design briefs, to allow for necessary cancellations.

Confirmed projects for 2023

  1. Don’t Stop the Music
  2. Automatic Entrepreneur
  3. Physical Computing for Beginners
  4. Rational Trading
  5. iMoji
  6. Speak in the Country
  7. Keeping Key-Workers
  8. Real Life Arabic
  9. NFTs for Digital CVs
  10. Leadership Transition Simulator
  11. AI Hype Monitor
  12. Robot Farm Monitor
  13. Fossil or Future?
  14. A Teaspoon of Video
  15. Autonomous Trucking
  16. Signs of our Times
  17. Responsible AI Copilot
  18. Email Diplomacy
  19. Genomics for the COVID Endemic
  20. Electric Motor Optimisation
  21. Responsible Construction
  22. Likeness Trainer

Clients in discussion for 2023

Possible clients for 2024

Potential design briefs for 2023

  1. Environmental Value Added

Potential clients to contact for 2023

Potential returning clients from 2022

Incubator and network contacts

Development notes carried forward from 2021

Other clients from 2021

Previous ideas that have not been used

  • Character Locomotion Middleware - Frontier
  • Automatic accessibility assessor - Frontier

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

Archived records of previous years

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!