Ask HN: Final Year CS Degree Project
So this week I need to choose a project for the final year of my Computer Science degree at the University of Edinburgh.
We have been given a list of ~150 pre-approved projects with supervisors and asked to select 4 top choices. The list has some very technical options such as: "Parallel hashing memory vs content addressable memory", "Static and profile-based parallelisation in the LLVM compiler" etc
These are very theory based and while that is computer science, I'd like to do something more practical. Infact if possible I'd like to kill two birds with one stone and come up with a startup idea that I can use for my project. There are some relatively good pre-proposed projects such as combining travel routes for taxis, spelling correction for twitter etc. However I don't want to rely on trying to get one of these projects.
It's quite difficult to propose your own project as you need to find a supervisor to back your idea. However I think i'll put far more hours in if it's a project I genuinely am interested in and that I can possibly turn into a business.
Any suggestions?