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University of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment

The University of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment, according to the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
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Computer Science Alumna Wins Award for Social Action

Congratulations to Computer Science alumna, Dr Qamar Naith, who won the Study UK Alumni Award for Social Action in Saudi Arabia
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Dr. Andrei Popescu receives distinguished paper award at POPL for the third consecutive year

Andrei has received distinguished paper awards at the last three Principle of Programming Languages (POPL) conferences, one of the most prestigious conferences in Computer Science.
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New AI guidance could help businesses and government use the technology

A new framework that could help businesses better understand and use AI has been developed by researchers from the University of Sheffield.
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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
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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
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'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