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New £235K UKRI Metascience Grant to Explore AI’s Impact on Research Stewardship

Researchers from Sheffield’s RSE team have won £235K in UKRI funding to explore AI's impact on research stewardship. "Paying it Forward" will help funders track resource creation and ensure foundational datasets receive proper recognition.
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School of Computer Science academic wins prestigious Best Paper Award at ICALP 2026

Dr Maksim Zhukovskii from the School of Computer Science has been awarded the Best Paper Award in Track A at ICALP 2026 for notable research into graph canonical labelling.
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Sheffield AI research highlighted in Financial Times feature on UK digital economy

Professor James Marshall, Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence, discusses how South Yorkshire's physical AI and advanced engineering are driving UK economic growth outside of London.
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Forging a Responsible Future: University of Sheffield's Centre for Machine Intelligence Unveils 2026 Strategy

The University of Sheffield’s Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI) has launched its Strategy 2026, a plan to advance artificial intelligence while championing responsible, human-centric development.
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Prof Roger Moore is on the What Do Robots Sound Like? podcast

Professor Roger Moore, Professor of Spoken Language Processing in the School of Computer Science, speaks to Ali Tocher in this long-form interview on the topic of sound for human-robot interactions.
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Computer Science academics strengthen AI health research links with the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)

Dr Ning Ma and Professor Guy Brown from the School of Computer Science recently visited Zambia to initiate a second project that will research the potential of using AI analysis of cough sound to screen for tuberculosis (TB).

Understanding how robots could fit into the social fabric of human society

Meet Miro! This animal-like robot integrated with AI perception and language models featured at the University's Festival of the Mind 2024 and received lots of interest from the public interested in the possibility of robot companions.
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Computer Science student places highly at IBM TechXchange hackathon

Second-year Computer Science student, Shohail Ismail, recently placed 5th at the IBM TechXchange watsonx hackathon out of over 4,000 participants.
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Inside Sheffield's Indoor Urban Farm

Meet Future Greens - a team of University of Sheffield alumni (including a co-founder from Computer Science) aiming to change farming as we know it with their urban vertical farm.