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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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The Generative AI Race has a Dirty Secret

The Department's Dr Nafise Sadat Moosavi discusses the need to make large language models like the ones used by Google and Microsoft more efficient.

| Wired
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Fast Large-Scale Agent-based Simulations on NVIDIA GPUs with FLAME GPU

Professor of Research Software Engineering Paul Richmond discusses agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) with FLAME GPU.

| Nvidia Developer
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AI could speed up discovery of new medicines

Artificial intelligence that could reduce the cost and speed up the discovery of new medicines has been developed as part of a collaboration between researchers at the University of Sheffield and AstraZeneca.
Emily Ip

‘It's possible to create something really special’ - student celebrates dissertation prize win

Graduate Emily Ip was in ‘complete disbelief’ when she was told she’d won the Department’s Fretwell-Downing prize for her dissertation on using language cues to detect signs of cognitive decline.
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Researchers help develop guidelines for virtual home assessmets

Department of Computer Science research is helping to create guidelines for healthcare professionals to make sure virtual home assessments are accessible, practical and secure.

| National Institute for Health and Care Research