Cambridge Computer Science Group Projects¶

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.

2025 Group Project Awards¶

For the 2024/25 group projects, three teams were awarded group project awards.

Professional AchievementTechnical AchievementBetter Future

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.

General Information about our Group Projects¶

Group Project Design Briefs for 2026 (work in progress)¶

We are currently collecting design briefs for the 2025/2026 group project runs. If you are interested to participate as a client, read "What makes a good project?". To put forward your project idea, get in touch with Alan Blackwell or Tobias Grosser.

Accepted design briefs (for 2026)¶

Drawing Machines

Candidates under discussion¶

Who Pays for Roads?
Software Inconsistency Resolver
Self-Driving Upgrade
ARM
Frontier
Jack Ashby, Zoology museum
Chris Pointon, Green Economy Infrastructure
Simon Pulman-Jones, Evinova / Astra Zeneca
Leontien Talboom, University Library

Projects under discussion¶

Design briefs suggested to several potential clients¶

Design briefs considered in 2024 that might be developed¶

Potential clients for 2025¶

Final 2025 list

Alder Hey Children's Hospital
Embecosm
SEAT
Anthony Harris
Rivos Systems
AMD
Raspberry Pi Foundation
Katy Jordan, EdTech Hub
Adham Ashton-Butt, British Trust for Ornithology
Adam Devenish, RSPB
Maximilian Ge
Matthew Postgate

Incubator and network contacts¶

Centre for Global Equality
Barn4
Ideaspace
Emma Salgard Cunha - humanities at Cambridge Enterprise
Nicola Buckley - policy fellows at CSaP

Other client discussions (last updated 2023)¶

Development notes carried forward from 2021¶

Frontier - second project
NIAB - second project
Informetis - topic discussed
Giving Voice to Digital Democracies - topic suggested, no response
ARM - contact identified, but no topic

Other clients from 2021¶

MathWorks

Boeing
TechWolf
DX Analytics
Umbrella Analytics
Lyzeum Ltd
Broadcom - all contact emails now bounce

Previous ideas that have not been used ¶

Calendar Dialogue - Amazon
Auto-Emoji
Archaeological databases
The Headless Bicycle
Emo Face
Character Locomotion Middleware - Frontier
Automatic accessibility assessor - Frontier
City generation - Frontier

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

2022: Autodesk
2021: FetoLife, Oodle, NHS Digital, Jump Trading, Microsoft Africa Research Institute
2020: Argon Design, Gearset, Thales, Sainsbury Laboratory
2019: Smart Cambridge, Mindi, Fauna and Flora International, Fusepump, Investre,
2018: Sparx, Cambridge Consultants, Capita, Nominet Trust, University Information Services, Sport England
2017: BT, Palantir, Elm Partners, Lucid / Cycorp, Microsoft Research
2016: Care Quality Commission, King Digital Entertainment, The Fusion Works
2015: Thales, Steve Wade, Cambridge Humanitarian Centre
2014: Broadcom, last.fm, Rangespan, John McMillan, Atheon, OpenMarket, Google, Repindex
2013: Neul.com, Steve Smith, CU Management Information Systems Division, Palantir Technologies, Privacy International

Archived records of previous years¶

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!