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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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Reverse-engineering insect brains to make robots ‘natural’ learners

How groundbreaking Department of Computer Science spin-out Opteran has reverse-engineered insect brains to derive new algorithms for collision avoidance and navigation that can be used in robotics.

| EE Times Europe
Sheffield skyline view of the Diamond building

Sheffield businesses first to receive millions from new Northern investment company

Opteron, a Department of Computer Science spin-out, is one of two companies to receive millions of pounds in investment from Northern Gritstone.
Dr Sagnik Mukhopadhyay and Dr Christain Coester in Regent Court

Algorithms Group have three papers accepted for prestigious FOCS 2022

Academics from the Department’s rapidly growing Algorithms Group are celebrating having three papers accepted for the 63rd Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2022)
The mars rover on the floor of an engineering workshop in Sheffield

Computer science students help team reach final of international Mars rover competition

A group of students from the Faculty of Engineering are the only team from the UK to qualify for the finals of an international competition to build a Mars rover.
two computer science students chatting in the Diamond.

Students vote computer science subject as number one for satisfaction among Russell Group universities

Students have voted the University of Sheffield’s computer science subject as number one for overall satisfaction in the Russell Group, according to the latest National Student Survey (NSS).