User contributions for afb21
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29 September 2023
- 15:2215:22, 29 September 2023 diff hist +611 N Dry Cycle Created page with "Client: William Jones <william.jones@embecosm.com> The Barbican Rain Room was an artificial shower, digitally controlled so you could walk around in it while never getting wet. Imagine if every bicycle ride in Cambridge was programmed to be dry! Your goal is to use advanced Dynamic Causal Modelling (DCM) to extrapolate from open rain radar data, finding precise windows when a specific bicycle journey can be completed through dry corridors, even if it’s raining all aro..." current
- 15:2115:21, 29 September 2023 diff hist +16 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 14:5814:58, 29 September 2023 diff hist +486 N Living Salad Bar Created page with "Client: Queens Sustainability Lab Commercial salad growers must operate at scale, stripping whole plants to truck around the country. In contrast, a typical salad plate or sandwich may only require a few leaves, beans or fruit from a plant that can keep growing. Your client has the components for a vertical garden, but wants to manage this in the most versatile and efficient way possible, using soil and water sensors together machine vision to identify every optimal pic..."
- 14:5714:57, 29 September 2023 diff hist +23 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 14:3914:39, 29 September 2023 diff hist +550 N Memories Retold Created page with "Client: Jonathan Sunderland, Ab Initio Design and develop an application to help people with memory loss create an oral history through interactive prompted storytelling. The application should use AI to identify suggested talking points and ask contextual questions to trigger the unlocking of long-term memories. The application should accept images as input prompts, and use speech-to-text conversion to capture the user's responses. Ethical aspects should be considered,..."
- 14:3914:39, 29 September 2023 diff hist +22 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 14:2814:28, 29 September 2023 diff hist +631 N Optimising Scores Created page with "Client: Arild Stenberg, Music Faculty The LaTeX typesetting system can be used to render many alternative styles of document from a master text specification. In contrast, music typesetting systems like Sibelius make all music look much the same. Your client has designed an optimised alternative style for music notation that has been found to improve performance. Your task is to define a specification language for these modifications, and implement a rendering pipeline..." current
- 14:2714:27, 29 September 2023 diff hist +24 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 10:5010:50, 29 September 2023 diff hist +4 ModularSynth.io No edit summary current
- 10:4610:46, 29 September 2023 diff hist +41 IMC No edit summary current
- 10:4210:42, 29 September 2023 diff hist +558 N Heterodox Economic Modeller Created page with "There is a long history of financial simulators that can be used to model national economies, dating back to the water-powered “Phillips machine” (we have one in Cambridge). Today’s economy is stuck in a rut, because alternative economic theories are proposed by people whose mathematical models are simply less well embedded than the legacy implementations. Your task is to create a quick and dirty financial simulator that could be used by heterodox economists to pro..."
- 10:4110:41, 29 September 2023 diff hist 0 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 10:4110:41, 29 September 2023 diff hist +34 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 07:5407:54, 29 September 2023 diff hist +658 N Envisioning Nairobi Created page with "Large cities around the world are grappling with plans to accommodate environmental, social and climate change. But there is a huge gulf between the technical software of geographical information systems and infrastructure planning on one hand, and the retail and entertainment data that is promoted in consumer products like Google Maps. The city of Nairobi is thinking ahead through an Urban re-engineering Taskforce, including a vision for Nairobi Railway City. Your role..."
- 07:5407:54, 29 September 2023 diff hist +26 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
28 September 2023
- 17:2517:25, 28 September 2023 diff hist +499 N Disability Bias Explorer Created page with "Recent work led by a team at ethical AI initiative Hugging Face (arXiv:2303.11408) demonstrated a tool that could be used to interactively investigate some of the race and gender biases that have become encoded in major text to image generation systems. Your task is to create a similar tool that could be used to demonstrate image generation biases relevant to visual disabilities. You may also need to consider how this tool can be made accessible to users who have visual..."
- 17:2517:25, 28 September 2023 diff hist +31 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 17:2417:24, 28 September 2023 diff hist +489 N Listening to the Land Created page with "Land management on a large scale requires a balance between productivity and ecological diversity, but it can be very difficult to integrate different data sources for strategic planning. This project will integrate remote satellite sensing from the Google Earth Engine with local bioacoustic surveys from the BTO acoustic pipeline, to visualise both historical and projected future measures, supporting land managers to make decisions about crops. harvests, irrigation, tour..." current
- 17:2417:24, 28 September 2023 diff hist +28 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 17:2417:24, 28 September 2023 diff hist −14 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 17:2317:23, 28 September 2023 diff hist +535 N Testing for Humans Created page with "Client: Bhasi Nair, Equitech Futures <bhasi@equitechfutures.com> Many companies rely on online programming aptitude tests to select potential employees. Unfortunately, applicants can often fool the test by finding answers online, or even generating a response automatically using an AI chatbot. Your task is to create an authoring and administration tool for aptitude question banks that automatically benchmarks them against such strategies, helping the question author to..." current
- 17:2317:23, 28 September 2023 diff hist +25 Main Page →Work in progress - design briefs for 2024
27 September 2023
- 15:1415:14, 27 September 2023 diff hist +57 N Embecosm Created page with "Potential client: Will Jones <william.jones@embecosm.com>" current
- 15:1415:14, 27 September 2023 diff hist +15 Main Page →Possible clients for 2024
26 September 2023
- 13:3613:36, 26 September 2023 diff hist +417 N Investment Provenance Created page with "There are many online forums that offer investment advice, but not much of it is original. Your task is to create a tool for use by traders, that annotates investment tips with a history of where they came from. This is likely to require some research into text processing algorithms and statistics, as well as an intuitive front end that helps users understand the "genetics" of specific investment trends and memes."
- 13:3213:32, 26 September 2023 diff hist +28 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 11:1811:18, 26 September 2023 diff hist +47 BeatGPT No edit summary current
22 September 2023
- 15:2115:21, 22 September 2023 diff hist +46 Main Page →Possible clients for 2024
- 15:2015:20, 22 September 2023 diff hist +55 DoS D-Stress No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 22 September 2023 diff hist +751 N Stretching the Score Created page with "Client: Philip Hazel, PMW Anyone who has learned a musical instrument or taken a music lesson at school is likely to have seen printed scores created with Sibelius, one of the most famous software companies to have come from Cambridge. The Sibelius tools make it very easy to print music in the way it has looked for 200 years or more, but very hard to adapt with typographic innovations that make music easier. Your goal is to create an alternative specification language a..." current
- 14:3814:38, 22 September 2023 diff hist +27 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 14:3114:31, 22 September 2023 diff hist −21 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 14:3114:31, 22 September 2023 diff hist +35 Main Page →Confirmed design briefs for 2024
- 14:3014:30, 22 September 2023 diff hist +42 N Croptimisation afb21 moved page Croptimisation to Ramping Up Sustainable Crops: Replace stupid pun current Tag: New redirect
- 14:3014:30, 22 September 2023 diff hist 0 m Ramping Up Sustainable Crops afb21 moved page Croptimisation to Ramping Up Sustainable Crops: Replace stupid pun current
- 14:2414:24, 22 September 2023 diff hist 0 Main Page →Work in progress - design briefs for 2024
20 September 2023
- 14:5014:50, 20 September 2023 diff hist +676 N Talking Music Created page with "Client: Cecily Morrison, Microsoft Research People with different sensory capabilities or diverse neural styles sometimes find it easier to communicate via a musical instrument or a piano keyboard than with the screen and keyboard of a laptop. The goal of this project is to make an alternative kind of music editor that works with text and sound as the elements, rather than working with music notation on the computer screen. The open source synthesiser SuperCollider gene..." current
- 14:4914:49, 20 September 2023 diff hist −4 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 14:4814:48, 20 September 2023 diff hist +24 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
18 September 2023
- 06:3306:33, 18 September 2023 diff hist +59 BeatGPT No edit summary
- 06:3206:32, 18 September 2023 diff hist +747 BeatGPT No edit summary
14 September 2023
- 17:0017:00, 14 September 2023 diff hist +573 N Ramping Up Sustainable Crops Created page with "Charles Gentry, NIAB <charles.gentry@niab.com> Arable crops in the countryside around Cambridge rely on soil nitrogen, but many farming practices are wasteful of this critical resource, potentially leading to other environmental risks. Your goal is to use recent advances in satellite imagery and robot/drone application to implement optimisation algorithms for the Ramp Calibration Strip method. Real data can be used in to construct realistic field simulations, but there..."
- 17:0017:00, 14 September 2023 diff hist +21 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 16:5616:56, 14 September 2023 diff hist +33 Creative Writing Coach No edit summary current
13 September 2023
- 15:0215:02, 13 September 2023 diff hist +471 N BeatGPT Created page with "ChatGPT is very good at answering the kinds of question where everybody already knows the answer. It is terrible in situations where the “wisdom of crowds” fails, and the Internet (or Reddit) never had the right answer. There are known strategies to compensate for this. Your task is to build an online platform for question answering that does exactly what ChatGPT can’t, by using those social metrics to reliably identify the answers that are surprising but true."
- 15:0115:01, 13 September 2023 diff hist +14 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
- 08:4208:42, 13 September 2023 diff hist +20 Visiting the Forest Stream No edit summary
- 08:4108:41, 13 September 2023 diff hist 0 Main Page →Work in progress - design briefs for 2024
12 September 2023
- 13:5013:50, 12 September 2023 diff hist +36 Visiting the Forest Stream No edit summary
- 13:4313:43, 12 September 2023 diff hist +581 N Visiting the Forest Stream Created page with "There are many Spotify playlists featuring the sound of nature, but it's hard to visit the places those sounds were recorded, or meet the people that live there. This project is an environmental update on music artists who make more money from concert visits and merchandise than they do from streaming licenses. Your client has been working with a forest community in Ghana, where the environmental soundscape doesn't bring any revenue to the village. The goal is to create..."
- 13:3913:39, 12 September 2023 diff hist +33 Main Page →Design briefs being considered for 2024
8 September 2023
- 05:5505:55, 8 September 2023 diff hist 0 Main Page →Work in progress - design briefs for 2024
- 05:5405:54, 8 September 2023 diff hist +185 Creative Writing Coach No edit summary
1 September 2023
- 16:4616:46, 1 September 2023 diff hist 0 Main Page →Work in progress - design briefs for 2024
- 16:4216:42, 1 September 2023 diff hist +9 DoS D-Stress No edit summary
- 14:4714:47, 1 September 2023 diff hist +44 N SMARTRI Indonesia Created page with "Local contact: Becky Heath <rh862@cam.ac.uk>" current
- 14:4714:47, 1 September 2023 diff hist +24 Main Page →Possible clients for 2024
- 14:4614:46, 1 September 2023 diff hist +80 Copilot for Business No edit summary current
- 14:4514:45, 1 September 2023 diff hist +47 Main Page →Work in progress - design briefs for 2024
- 14:0114:01, 1 September 2023 diff hist +75 N ClimateInColour Created page with "Discuss with Joycelyn Longdon <jl2182@cam.ac.uk> Likely design client: Ana" current
- 14:0114:01, 1 September 2023 diff hist +22 Main Page →Possible clients for 2024
- 13:5913:59, 1 September 2023 diff hist +525 N Copilot for Business Created page with "We’re all familiar with the code generation capabilities of ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot. That’s fine for experienced programmers, but how could an AI coding tool support people who have never written a line of code? Your goal is to create a user friendly natural language interface that not only generates code for extracting and visualising data from an arbitrary business database, but helps non-programmer users to understand how that code works, recognising and correc..."
- 13:5913:59, 1 September 2023 diff hist +27 Main Page →Design briefs to consider in 2024
31 August 2023
- 15:3315:33, 31 August 2023 diff hist +538 N DoS D-Stress Created page with "The very first AI chatbot was the psychotherapist Eliza. For young people today, mental health is more challenging than ever, but we aren’t using LLM technology in ways that reduce stress. Your goal is to create a de-stressing experience, potentially including responsive sound and imagery alongside short generated texts that respond to what is stressing you. A fully automated chain should direct stressful content (e.g. an email from your DoS) directly into the system s..."
- 15:3315:33, 31 August 2023 diff hist +19 Main Page →Design briefs to consider in 2024
- 06:1906:19, 31 August 2023 diff hist +24 N Cam-AI Created page with "Client: Simon Fothergill" current
30 August 2023
21 August 2023
- 08:3708:37, 21 August 2023 diff hist +1 Main Page →Work in progress - design briefs for 2024
- 08:3208:32, 21 August 2023 diff hist +489 N Creative Writing Coach Created page with "AI Language models do very well at correcting spelling and grammar, but can they help with more creative writing? The goal of this project is to create an app in the style of Duolingo that helps students learn to write more creatively, with poetic imagery, dramatic tension and vivid characterisation. Experiments show that a standard LLM (with carefully designed prompts) can provide critical feedback, but your app needs to engage and motivate students to become fluent cre..."
- 08:3208:32, 21 August 2023 diff hist +29 Main Page →Design briefs to consider in 2024
- 08:3108:31, 21 August 2023 diff hist +7 Main Page →Work in progress - design briefs for 2023
- 08:2908:29, 21 August 2023 diff hist +101 Logistics for Clients →Preparation
- 08:2708:27, 21 August 2023 diff hist +1 Logistics for Clients →Progress meetings
- 07:1007:10, 21 August 2023 diff hist −15 What makes a good project? No edit summary current
17 April 2023
- 14:5514:55, 17 April 2023 diff hist +503 N Non-WEIRD Data Science Created page with "Many data journalists report information collected from people who are Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic, but this "WEIRD" demographic does not represent the majority of people in the world. AfroBarometer collects data from 33 different countries on the African continent, and makes it openly available. Your task is to create a tool that maps datasets from AfroBarometer onto key current issues in the UK news media, helping readers in this country get..." current
- 14:5114:51, 17 April 2023 diff hist +8 Main Page →Design briefs to consider in 2024
- 14:5014:50, 17 April 2023 diff hist +21 Main Page →Design briefs to consider in 2024
- 14:4714:47, 17 April 2023 diff hist +490 N Guitar tab2hand Created page with "Guitar tabs are a simple and popular alternative to music notation for guitar students, as well as guitarists and bassists in cover bands. The tab tells you where each string needs to be held, but not how to get enough fingers into the right places. That requires a clever algorithm, perhaps AI-assisted. Your task is to build an app that automatically converts tabs, from sites like ultimate-guitar.com, into a 3D animated hand that shows a student how to hold their hand on..." current
- 14:4214:42, 17 April 2023 diff hist +22 Main Page →Design briefs to consider in 2024
13 April 2023
- 09:1309:13, 13 April 2023 diff hist −132 Main Page →Work in progress - design briefs for 2023
- 09:0909:09, 13 April 2023 diff hist +442 N ResponsibleAncestry.com Created page with "Older people often get interested in tracing their family trees on sites like ancestry.com. Perhaps it would be more useful if they spent the time planning for their grandchildren? Responsible ancestry.com should be a repository of traceable planning for the future, helping people to be responsible ancestors, so that the decisions they make about their lives today can be evaluated for their impacts on grandchildren and great-grandchildren" current
- 09:0809:08, 13 April 2023 diff hist +24 Main Page →Design briefs to consider again in 2024
4 April 2023
- 07:1907:19, 4 April 2023 diff hist +142 Raspberry Pi Foundation No edit summary current
- 07:1707:17, 4 April 2023 diff hist +30 Main Page →Possible clients for 2024
17 March 2023
- 12:3412:34, 17 March 2023 diff hist +163 N Lee Wilson Created page with "Apologies for late response, meant to get back to you earlier but am busy in Qatar with another WHO digital project. Yes, be happy to help out with your students." current
- 12:3312:33, 17 March 2023 diff hist +17 Main Page →Possible clients for 2024
- 12:3312:33, 17 March 2023 diff hist +200 N The Carbon Eye Created page with "App for infrared camera attachment to estimate carbon costs of heat escaping from a building, and directly calculate financial costs and benefits of insulation, draft reduction, secondary glazing etc."
- 12:3212:32, 17 March 2023 diff hist +21 Main Page →Design briefs to consider again in 2024
22 February 2023
- 16:4916:49, 22 February 2023 diff hist +104 Automatic Entrepreneur No edit summary current
18 February 2023
- 11:0911:09, 18 February 2023 diff hist +123 N Daniel Hall Created page with "Daniel Hall, CamCyan Ltd <danielahall@gmail.com> General area of cloud computing for graphics rendering/printing services." current
- 11:0811:08, 18 February 2023 diff hist +18 Main Page →Clients in discussion for 2023
4 November 2022
- 16:4616:46, 4 November 2022 diff hist −8 Logistics for Clients →Correspondence
- 16:4516:45, 4 November 2022 diff hist +31 Logistics for Clients →Public demonstration
- 16:4416:44, 4 November 2022 diff hist −39 Logistics for Clients →Progress meetings
- 16:4216:42, 4 November 2022 diff hist −72 Logistics for Clients →Progress meetings
- 16:4016:40, 4 November 2022 diff hist −161 Logistics for Clients →Kick-off
- 16:3516:35, 4 November 2022 diff hist +13 ModularSynth.io No edit summary
- 15:5215:52, 4 November 2022 diff hist 0 Autonomous Trucking No edit summary current
- 15:5215:52, 4 November 2022 diff hist +1,435 N 2023 list Created page with "Complete list of design briefs to be advertised to students for 2023 group design projects. (text transcluded from individual project descriptions - click on project title to..." current
- 15:4815:48, 4 November 2022 diff hist +46 Main Page →Archived records of previous years
