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  • 15:59, 21 March 2024Anthony Harris (hist | edit) ‎[66 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "awh28@cam.ac.uk Digital art history with Hamilton Kerr Institute?")
  • 16:49, 12 December 2023Rivos Systems (hist | edit) ‎[548 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Tim Ramsdale <timr@rivosinc.com> Bring-up and optimisation of SYCL on a high-performance RISC-V platform - sponsored by Rivos and Intel. We could target it towards a specific application if desired, so we could give it some direct business relationship, and that would also give it some specific goals. I think it's a pretty interesting space - and it does have a real business purpose for us. We could certainly try and have a LLM/ChatGPT/other application running on-top...")
  • 15:47, 24 November 2023JAID (hist | edit) ‎[58 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Client: Mark Barton <mark.barton@jaid.io> https://jaid.io")
  • 19:05, 12 November 2023AMD (hist | edit) ‎[249 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "To be followed up with: "Bonsor-Matthews, Jonathan" <Jonathan.Bonsor-Matthews@amd.com> "McConnell, Daniel" <Daniel.McConnell@amd.com> "Fox, James" <james.fox@amd.com> "Porter, Martin" <martin.porter@amd.com> "Sadleir, Daisy" <daisy.sadleir@amd.com>")
  • 10:17, 8 November 2023Engaging Everyone (hist | edit) ‎[698 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Client: Rachel Gardner, Communications Manager Many public events and services aim to include young people, with meaningful attention to their specific views and needs. Our own outreach activities, such as the huge Cambridge Festival (next taking place on 16th March 2024) want to ensure that feedback from visiting families includes all visitors, especially where “family” feedback might otherwise only engage adults through traditional surveys. Your task is to create...")
  • 09:42, 5 November 2023Wearable Sleep Coach (hist | edit) ‎[666 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Client: Alex Venetidis, Terra <alex@tryterra.co> The Terra API unlocks health and fitness data from diverse sources, including popular wearables and fitness apps like Fitbit, Apple Watch, Oura, and 70+ others. Your challenge is to leverage the Terra API to develop an AI coach that advises people on how to improve their sleep habits. The coach can be trained using data already acquired by Terra, and you should have time to test it on yourselves.")
  • 10:46, 26 October 20232024 list (hist | edit) ‎[1,587 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Complete list of design briefs to be advertised to students for 2024 group design projects. (text transcluded from individual project descriptions - click on project title to edit original page) ==A Teaspoon of Video== {{:A Teaspoon of Video}}")
  • 08:09, 26 October 2023Component Quest (hist | edit) ‎[511 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Client: Stephen Devlin <sd2030@cam.ac.uk> The electronics industry faces chip shortages, rising costs, and increasing e-waste. This creates demand for secondhand components, but it can be difficult to identify and value them. Develop a smartphone app that uses AI to identify and value electronic components from images. The app should handle a wide range of components, provide current market value, and link users to a marketplace to buy and sell them.")
  • 17:02, 20 October 2023Future Health and Fitness (hist | edit) ‎[474 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Terra API unlocks health and fitness data from diverse sources, including popular wearables and fitness apps like Fitbit, Apple Watch, Oura, and 70+ others. Your challenge is to leverage the Terra API to develop an innovative and creative product that enhances the way people engage with health and fitness data. We're looking for an application that does more than track metrics. Your project needs to inspire, motivate, and transform users' health and fitness journey.")
  • 18:09, 13 October 2023The Big Chill (hist | edit) ‎[625 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Terra API integrates data from all kinds of wearable devices, in a way that is very attractive for sports enthusiasts and health insurance companies. Is there any future for people who just want a quiet life, perhaps chilling with their cat, drinking beer or knitting socks? Why not use your Apple Watch or Fitbit to make your life more enjoyable rather than setting more and more performance targets? Your goal is to make an application so attractive that everyone will...")
  • 15:50, 13 October 2023Influencing Health (hist | edit) ‎[562 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Client: Lee Wilson, Kavavar <lee.wilson@kavavar.com> Many more people get their news from social media than TV, but much national and international public health policy relies on public broadcasting as the primary channel of communication. Your job is to make a tool that helps reconnect local health emergencies to local influencers who may be motivated to help. This will involve using APIs from Tiktok, Instagram etc, but mapping these against local health statistics in...")
  • 15:33, 13 October 2023P2P Social Network (hist | edit) ‎[1,080 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Client: Mick Vermeulen, IMC Social networks are a major part of our lives. The acquisition of Twitter by Musk demonstrates how much influence one person can express by changing the platform to his liking where users have no say in the direction of the platform. Your assignment is to create a peer 2 peer honest social network: a social network that has no central server that anyone can join freely. You'll need to find or define a protocol that allows users to communicate...")
  • 15:30, 13 October 2023Supply Chain Resilience (hist | edit) ‎[997 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Client: Murad Abdulla, IMC Events such as the Covid pandemic and the Ukraine-Russia war highlight inefficiencies in global supply chains, affecting our everyday lives through energy prices, inflation, cost-of-living, unemployment and housing. This project will use publicly available datasets and APIs to build a comprehensive map investigating supply chain choices such as semiconductors for tech via China to the West, oil exports, agricultural product shipments etc. You...")
  • 15:21, 13 October 2023Taste: Movies x Books x Music (hist | edit) ‎[690 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Client: Hrvoje Abramović, IMC <Hrvoje.Abramovic@imc.com> There are many music, movie and book recommendation systems online, but each focuses on a single medium. The goal of this project is to build a web application which, when given a movie or a book, would present a cluster of books, movies and songs that are related to it by often being mentioned online together. It would be cool to see how clusters of “tastes” form and how books, movies and music from the same...")
  • 06:39, 12 October 2023Climate Foresight (hist | edit) ‎[547 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Client: William Jones <william.jones@embecosm.com> Dynamic Causal Modeling is a Bayesian statistical technique for reverse engineering time series data. One of the ongoing challenges in applying such statistical models is how to visualise the multiverse of possible outcomes that the algorithm derives. Your goal is to create an evidence-based visualisation of possible climate futures that allows users to interrogate and compare projections from a complete simplified carb...")
  • 07:47, 6 October 2023World Craft (hist | edit) ‎[671 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Google Earth, Google Maps and Google Streetview have turned surveillance data into commercial opportunities ranging from Deliveroo to Down My Street. But coverage tends to focus on popular tourist destinations and sponsored business opportunities, rather the presenting real people’s lives and neighbourhoods. Your task is to prototype an infrastructure of an interactive globe, where you can fluidly zoom in to connect to people's "best self", using the verified images th...")
  • 07:32, 6 October 2023Real-pedia (hist | edit) ‎[858 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The training data for AI large language models mixes up Wikipedia articles with ripped-off text from random authors, toxic trolls off social media, and secret prompts from commercial sponsors. Most of this excludes real knowledge of real places, from the girls excluded from education in Afghanistan, to the women who teach their own families all over the world. Your goal is to make an alternative wiki architecture, where the benchmark of knowledge is not who has the most...")
  • 15:20, 5 October 2023Acoustic Land Management (hist | edit) ‎[542 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Client: Adham Ashton-Butt, BTO <adham.ashton-butt@bto.org> Land managers are often responsible for restoration projects, in which they make changes expected to benefit wildlife over time. One very useful source of evidence is acoustic data recordings. This project is intended to create an interactive application that can be used by land managers to visualise, make decisions, monitor, and evaluate their interventions, based on bioacoustic survey data processed through th...")
  • 10:29, 5 October 2023Braille Predictive Text (hist | edit) ‎[878 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Client: Gregory Hargraves, Paige Braille <greg@paigebraille.com> David MacKay’s Dasher was a radical predictive text system where a machine learning language model helped users with disabilities by guiding them to zoom in to more likely possible texts. That’s no use for people with a vision impairment, who can’t see the guidance or easily operate animated graphical interfaces. This is an opportunity to work with a team who have recently augmented the classic mecha...")
  • 10:21, 3 October 2023AfroInsight (hist | edit) ‎[583 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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...") originally created as "Continental Health Explorer"
  • 07:07, 2 October 2023Optimising Music Notation (hist | edit) ‎[678 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Dignified Distributed Work (hist | edit) ‎[679 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Dry Cycle (hist | edit) ‎[611 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Living Salad Bar (hist | edit) ‎[617 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Memories Retold (hist | edit) ‎[577 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Optimising Scores (hist | edit) ‎[631 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Heterodox Economic Modeller (hist | edit) ‎[646 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Envisioning Nairobi (hist | edit) ‎[912 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Disability Bias Explorer (hist | edit) ‎[578 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Listening to the Land (hist | edit) ‎[489 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Testing for Humans (hist | edit) ‎[535 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Embecosm (hist | edit) ‎[57 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Potential client: Will Jones <william.jones@embecosm.com>")
  • 13:36, 26 September 2023Investment Provenance (hist | edit) ‎[620 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Stretching the Score (hist | edit) ‎[751 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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...")
  • 14:50, 20 September 2023Talking Music (hist | edit) ‎[676 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Ramping Up Sustainable Crops (hist | edit) ‎[573 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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...") originally created as "Croptimisation"
  • 15:02, 13 September 2023BeatGPT (hist | edit) ‎[1,324 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Visiting the Forest Stream (hist | edit) ‎[636 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023SMARTRI Indonesia (hist | edit) ‎[44 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Local contact: Becky Heath <rh862@cam.ac.uk>")
  • 14:01, 1 September 2023ClimateInColour (hist | edit) ‎[75 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Discuss with Joycelyn Longdon <jl2182@cam.ac.uk> Likely design client: Ana")
  • 13:59, 1 September 2023Copilot for Business (hist | edit) ‎[605 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023DoS D-Stress (hist | edit) ‎[602 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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 2023Cam-AI (hist | edit) ‎[24 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Client: Simon Fothergill")
  • 08:32, 21 August 2023Creative Writing Coach (hist | edit) ‎[707 bytes]afb21 (talk | contribs) (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...")