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Professor Guy Brown and Dr Ning Ma with the CIDRZ team at the field recording site at Kanyama Level One Hospital, Lusaka.
Professor Guy Brown and Dr Ning Ma with the CIDRZ team at the field recording site at Kanyama Level One Hospital, Lusaka.

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).
Hey MiRo demo at Festival of the Mind

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.
second year computer science student, Shohail Ismail, infront of a big IBM sign

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.
The team in the Heartspace

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.

A mobile phone with the Twitter logo on the screen

Women journalists receive abuse "within seconds" from posting online

The Department's Professor Kalina Bontcheva and Dr Diana Maynard feature after helping to develop a new tool to measure the amount of abuse that journalists receive on Twitter.

| Journalism.co.uk
Guanyu Huang and Mary Hewitt in Diamond

PhD students take top prize for design of musical robot companion

A team of PhD students are jumping for joy after their music-loving robot companion won Best Design at the influential Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 2023 Student Design Competition.
Image shows abstract representation of neural network

University of Sheffield becomes member of newly-established Turing University Network

The University of Sheffield has further strengthened its ties with The Alan Turing Institute as it joins the UK’s national centre for data science and AI’s newly launched Turing University Network.
healthcare tech

Remote technologies help occupational therapists get patients home quicker

Using remote consultation technology to assess a patient’s home environment allowed for quicker hospital discharge and freed up staff time for other care.
TikTok

TikTok bans: what the evidence says about security and privacy concerns

Department Cybersecurity Lecturer Dr Benjamin Dowling offers his take on the furore surrounding TikTok privacy concerns.

| The Conversation