Information on Tripos Part II projects 2011-2012

Overseer Allocations

The overseeing allocations 2011-2012: INITIAL ALLOCATIONS.

Information for Overseers: OVERSEERS ONLY.

Information for Supervisors: SUPERVISORS.

Miscellaneous Information

• The "Pink Book" or Project Briefing Document (pdf)
• How To Write a Dissertation lecture: Handout - 4 page pdf (56kB), Slides - 33 slide pdf (500kB)
• Important dates
• Read this to motivate backing-up files: June issue of Business 2.0 deleted before going to print
• CST Briefing Lecture (Thu, 6th October 2011, 10:00am, Lecture Theatre 2)
• Preliminary Briefing Lecture for Part IB (Tue, 22nd May 2012, 10:00am, Lecture Theatre 1)
• The directory demodiss.zip, in zip format, contains a collection of files that constitute a LaTeX version of a project proposal and dissertation
• Submission information (note: electronic submission is required)

Forms and additional sheets:

• You should fill out a Phase 1 Report Form and email it as a plain text message to your overseers by the Monday after the briefing lecture: 10th Oct 2011
• You should attach the Coversheet to the front of your proposal, make sure to only fill in Part 1.
• Any special resources you use should be listed in your Project Resource Form (fill in Part 1 and attach to the back of your project proposal).
• Evaluation or other experiments involving Human Subjects requires approval by the Department's Ethics Committee. Please read the guidance in Part II projects Experiments using Human Subjects. To apply on-line please see Experiments on Human Subjects. See also Guidance on involvement of human participants in technology research.
• Hardware projects may require a Risk Assessment to be completed. For more information contact any member of the Departmental Safety Committee
• Text of declaration of originality. Please cut and paste the text as shown, then edit the highlighted details to apply to you. (Official statement of the regulation requiring a declaration of originality Reporter)
• Supervisors' Report Form to be submitted with the dissertation.

Project suggestions

Note: these are informal suggestions for projects that may not have been checked by the Computer Laboratory (except for the model proposals).

• Model Project Proposals (originally for the Diploma in CS)
  These serve to illustrate the style of Project Proposal that the Laboratory expects.
• Informal advice to assist with project selection: Selection Tips.
  
• Project suggestions from Salman Taherian.
• Project suggestions from Timothy Jones.
• Project suggestions from Arno Pauly.
• Project suggestions from Simon Moore.
• Project suggestions from Chris Town.
• Project suggestions from F Stajano.
• Project suggestions from A Bulling.
• Project suggestions from D Greaves.
• Project suggestions from M Batty.
  Suggestions from last year (2010).
• Project suggestions from Mark Batty.
• Project suggestions from Per Ola Kristensson.
• Project suggestions from Christian Richardt.
• Project suggestions from Arno Pauly.
• Project suggestions from Peter Sewell.
• Project suggestions from Mike Dodds.
• Project suggestions from the Graphics and Interaction Group.

• Project suggestions from previous years