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• 10:25, 3 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs moved page Continental Health Explorer to AfroInsight (Too close to Disability Bias Explorer)
• 10:21, 3 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Continental Health Explorer (Created page with "Client: Lee Wilson <lee.wilson@kavavar.com> AfroBarometer is a pan-African research network that collects public attitude data on a variety of topics, including health. The World Health Organization (WHO) is interested in using AfroBarometer data to inform its global approaches to health information campaigns. However, the data is currently in a proprietary format and can be difficult to access and use, especially for non-technical users. Challenge: Develop a front-end...")
• 07:07, 2 October 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Optimising Music Notation (Created page with "Optimising Music Notation Client: Arild Stenberg, Score Designs Group <arildstenberg@gmail.com> 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 fo...")
• 16:07, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Dignified Distributed Work (Created page with "Client: Lorraine Charles, Na'amal <lorraine@naamal.org> Na’amal provides refugees and other underrepresented communities training in marketable skills, with a focus on the human/soft skills that are required in the global labour market and links them to dignified digital remote work. The final piece of Na’amal’s work is the link to employment. However, different partners all have different requirements for digital employment profiles, involving scarce skills and l...")
• 15:22, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 14:58, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 14:39, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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,...")
• 14:28, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 10:42, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 07:54, 29 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 17:25, 28 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 17:24, 28 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 17:23, 28 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 15:14, 27 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Embecosm (Created page with "Potential client: Will Jones <william.jones@embecosm.com>")
• 13:36, 26 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 14:43, 22 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 14:30, 22 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs moved page Croptimisation to Ramping Up Sustainable Crops (Replace stupid pun)
• 14:50, 20 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 17:00, 14 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Croptimisation (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...")
• 15:02, 13 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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.")