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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.")
• 13:43, 12 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 14:47, 1 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page SMARTRI Indonesia (Created page with "Local contact: Becky Heath <rh862@cam.ac.uk>")
• 14:01, 1 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page ClimateInColour (Created page with "Discuss with Joycelyn Longdon <jl2182@cam.ac.uk> Likely design client: Ana")
• 13:59, 1 September 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 15:33, 31 August 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 06:19, 31 August 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Cam-AI (Created page with "Client: Simon Fothergill")
• 08:32, 21 August 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 14:55, 17 April 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 14:47, 17 April 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 09:09, 13 April 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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")
• 12:34, 17 March 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 12:33, 17 March 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page 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.")
• 11:09, 18 February 2023 afb21 talk contribs created page Daniel Hall (Created page with "Daniel Hall, CamCyan Ltd <danielahall@gmail.com> General area of cloud computing for graphics rendering/printing services.")
• 15:52, 4 November 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page 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...")
• 15:13, 4 November 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page ModularSynth.io (Created page with "Client: (name to be confirmed), IMC Sophisticated digital music composition tools like the Sonic Pi language rely on an internal architecture of samples, waveforms and filter...")
• 17:57, 2 November 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page Just Maps (Created page with "Cambridge has been named the most unequal city in the UK, with homelessness, poverty, and unaffordable housing exacerbated by unequal access to land. The goal of this project...")
• 10:20, 2 November 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page Mark Gotham (Created page with " Suggestions from 2023 round - may be starting point for a more open-ended brief in future: ============== 1. Client: Mark Gotham (mrhg2), "Four Score and More" (https://fou...")
• 09:11, 28 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page Automatic Entrepreneur (Created page with "Client (t.b.c.): Daniel Organisciak, Luminance <daniel.organisciak@luminance.com> Current draft (t.b.c.) as follows ... The skill of a business entrepreneur is turning a few...")
• 08:11, 27 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page Physical Computing for Beginners (Created page with "Client: Tracy Gardner, Raspberry Pi Foundation, tracy@raspberrypi.org Children and other beginners can understand the computational concepts involved in physical computing (c...")
• 14:45, 26 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page IMoji (Created page with "Client: Patrick Wollner <patrickwollner@gmail.com> It is useful to include emojis in your messages as a quick indicator of emotional state, but why should you have to call up...")
• 14:44, 26 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page Rational Trading (Created page with "Client: Patrick Wollner <patrickwollner@gmail.com> The valuation of investments according to their expected future value is a key part of our economy. Unfortunately, sometime...")
• 09:21, 26 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page Speak in the Country (Created page with "Client: Alex Raymond, Speechmatics <alexra@speechmatics.com> People who live in rural areas of low-income countries find it difficult to access online services. They may have...")
• 07:29, 24 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs moved page Degrees x NFTs to NFTs for Digital CVs (More sensible name)
• 06:37, 22 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page Keeping Key-Workers (Created page with "Client: Konrad Maliszewski, Atheon <konrad.maliszewski@atheon.co.uk> The design strategy of “gamification” uses familiar features of videogames like high scores, personal...")
• 06:27, 22 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page Real Life Arabic (Created page with "Client: Saussan Khalil, Kalamna <smk58@cam.ac.uk> Literacy is a major problem for young people in North Africa. The Arabic at the mosque is like an Italian learning Latin, an...")
• 19:28, 21 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page Degrees x NFTs (Created page with "Client: David Sharp, International Workplace <dgs48@cam.ac.uk> When people move jobs they take the knowledge they’ve gained with them, but their learner records often stay...")
• 11:00, 19 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page Leadership Transition Simulator (Created page with "Client: Megan Renoir, Stopping as Success <meganrenoir@gmail.com> International agencies work hard to support low-income communities in becoming self-sufficient and taking co...")
• 08:20, 18 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page Don’t Stop the Music (Created page with "Audio mixing desks are a mystery to many, as you might know if you’ve ever had to diagnose the silence when your friend’s band goes onstage. Desks have only got more compl...")
• 12:47, 15 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page A Teaspoon of Video (Created page with "Computer Science education expert Mark Guzdial suggests kids can learn effectively from Task-Specific Programming (TSP, or "teaspoon") languages that can be learned in a few m...")
• 12:40, 15 October 2022 afb21 talk contribs created page AI Hype Monitor (Created page with "Tomasz Hollanek, LCFI <th536@cam.ac.uk> Researchers critical of the persistent 'AI hype' – driven by flashy headlines and corporate communications – have pointed to the h...")