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Brief and client planning

Teams of Cambridge second year computer science students work every year to deliver a diverse set of projects. Each project is born from a design brief: an external client proposes a project title and a one-paragraph project brief, meets with our students four times (or more), and our students as a team deliver a technical solution.

Warning

All content on this site has draft status, subject to confirmation by both group project coordinators and clients. There is no guarantee that these projects will be offered to students, either in the form described here, or at all.

Group Project Design Briefs for 2027 (finalised list)

Unless you have already submitted your project to us in draft form, we are no longer currently collecting design briefs for the 2026/2027 group projects (expecting 132 students, 22 teams). If you are interested in participating as a client next year (2027/28) then please read "What makes a good project?". If you would like to propose a project idea for 2027/28 then please do get in touch with Tobias Grosser, Katie Seaborn or Anthony (Tony) Harris.

Accepted design briefs (for 2027)

  1. Maths Recommender
  2. A Declarative MLIR Dialect for the AHB Protocol
  3. Text Immersion
  4. OncoBench NHS: Real-World Oncology Outcomes
  5. Global Green Solutions
  6. ARM PIL Emulator
  7. Medical Edge Vision
  8. Big Boxed Security
  9. Trouble Detector
  10. Sentient Classrooms
  11. Smart GPU Allocation
  12. Lit Scout
  13. Finding Fire
  14. African Operations Assistant
  15. Station Anywhere
  16. Court Room Compass
  17. BEACON: Biomarker Evaluation & Clinical Oncology Navigator
  18. Compound Memory
  19. Cross-Camera Re-ID
  20. Tasting, and Savouring, Fairly
  21. Ski Club Mountain Companion
  22. Next-Day Network
  23. Heat Pump Ready?
  24. CitiPod Connect
  25. Financial Date Extraction
  26. Concrete Proof
  27. Signal Sleuth
  28. Women's Health

Design Brief Candidates (for 2027)

Potential Clients (for 2027)

  • Zanado - Quantum Compiler
  • Vianca Shah - AI for Medical Tools
  • IMC - Contact Campus events
  • Chengyu Zhang - Testing of ITPs
  • Philip Nelson, Google - Topic to be confirmed
  • Alex Murray, FLIT - Test rig, operational tools or website widgets

Design briefs suggested to several potential clients

  1. The Carbon Eye
  2. ResponsibleAncestry.com
  3. Guitar tab2hand
  4. Who Pays for Roads?

Candidates considered in 2026 that may be developed

Design briefs considered in 2024 that might be developed

  1. Dignified Distributed Work
  2. The Big Chill
  3. Future Health and Fitness
  4. AfroInsight
  5. Leadership Transition Simulator
  6. Environmental Value Added
  7. Just Maps
  8. Non-WEIRD Data Science
  9. Living Salad Bar

Potential clients for 2025

Final 2025 list

Incubator and network contacts

Other client discussions (last updated 2023)

Development notes carried forward from 2021

Other clients from 2021

Previous ideas that have not been used

Potential clients that did not proceed, but could be considered in future

Archived records of previous years

Design briefs

Design briefs

Design briefs

Design briefs

Design briefs, Final list of clients

Design briefs, Final list of clients and playlist:

Design briefs, Final list of clients, Student briefing booklet

(presentations disrupted by Covid-19 - no video).

Design briefs, Final list of clients, Student briefing booklet

Design briefs, Final list of clients, Student briefing booklet

Design briefs, Final list of clients, Student briefing booklet

Design briefs, Final list of clients, Student briefing booklet

Design briefs, Final list of clients, Student briefing booklet

Design briefs, Final list of clients Student briefing booklet

Design briefs, Final list of clients, Student briefing booklet

Projects that have been offered, but not assigned to groups

The usual reason for cancelling a project is that the topic has not attracted sufficient interest from students. It's worth keeping an eye on these, as some topics, or ways of phrasing them, seem less attractive. But fashions change!