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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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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.
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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.
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‘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.