Capstone overview

2026-10-08

What the capstone is

The capstone is an open-ended distributed systems project. It is evaluated through multiple milestones so that no single submission dominates the grade.

Teams and deliverables

Teams: up to 5 students.
Deliverables: both a group report and an individual report.
Evidence: signed git history + AI log + reproducible artifacts.
Oral exam hooks: keep a compact index of your reasoning in oral-exam-hooks/hooks.md (used if selected for an oral exam).
Course GitHub organization: https://github.students.cs.ubc.ca/CPSC416-2025W-T2

Early exploration

The capstone work starts early with low-stakes exploration activities (historically “weekly reports”) so students build momentum before the heavy milestones.

Domains

See Capstone domains for suggested directions and the nomination process.

Milestones

See Capstone milestones for the milestone-based structure and deliverables (draft).