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Design Briefs for Cambridge University Computer Laboratory Group Design Projects 2016

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.

We expect 95 students to participate this year. These will probably be arranged into 16 groups - 15 with 6 members, and 1 with 5 members. We plan to offer at least 18 design briefs - preferably 19 or 20 - to allow for some student choice, technical lossage or client withdrawal.

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

Work in progress - design briefs for 2016

Potential project clients for 2016

• Morgan Stanley - interested in sponsoring a good cause project

• Tim Wilkinson <tim.wilkinson@unep-wcmc.org>

Management timetable for 2016

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

Further project ideas to consider

Project ideas for 2015 that were not offered

• Machine morse

• Marker of the Beast

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

Further client contacts

Potential clients from 2015 that did not proceed

• Thales - no project proposed

• Illumina - no project proposed

• Steve Wade - no project proposed

• Cambridge Humanitarian Centre - working with clients from ARM

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

Group Design Projects 2015

• Student briefing booklet 2015: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1415.pdf
• Video of presentations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d0cPplAB3DxHoaJC6hTYomP
• 2015 list of design briefs
• 2015 - final list of clients

Group Design Projects 2014

• Student briefing booklet 2014: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/group-projects/StudentBriefing_1314.pdf
• Video of presentations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLstyePOvf2d2A3vWW4DkEGIAUIm4T0fg6
• 2014 - final list of design briefs
• 2014 - final list of clients

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

Selected design briefs from earlier years

• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2006

Projects that have been offered, but not assigned to groups

Projects offered in 2014 not assigned to groups

• Locally Augmented Retail

• Set Builder

• Employability Coach

• Dance Practice Assistant

• History Scraper

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