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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.

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Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk

Department of Computer Science research features in a BBC Panorama investigation into the escalation of online violence, abuse and trolling on the social media platform.

| BBC News
Zalan Levai

'To say I'm excited is an understatement' - student's paper accepted at influential international conference

An undergraduate student is celebrating after the dissertation project he put everything into has been accepted as a paper at a prestigious international software testing conference.
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More success for Algorithms group as papers accepted at STOC 2023

An academic from the Department’s Algorithms research group has had two papers accepted at one of the top global conferences in theoretical computer science.
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Robotics innovations aim to protect battlefield medics and nuclear engineers

Department spin-out BOW (formerly Cyberselves) has won two contracts to create robotic systems to help remove people from harm on battlefields and assist in decommissioning legacy nuclear sites.

| The Business Desk
Omar Abdelmageed PayPal

Student’s idea to become reality after winning global PayPal competition

A student has well and truly made his mark during his Industrial Placement Year at PayPal after winning the company’s Global Innovation Tournament.