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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.

A woman holding a mobile phone and looking at a laptop computer

How long will Twitter stand by as ‘online violence’ curtails our right to know?

Professor Kalina Bontcheva features in The Guardian for her work as part of an international research project to develop an early warning system for gender-based online violence against women journalists.

| The Guardian
Three members of Opteran pose for a photo

Our Opteran spin-out lands £3.3m investment from Northern Gritstone.

Sky News reports on the ‘brain biomimicry’ company Opteran, a spin-out from the Department of Computer Science, which receives a ground-breaking new investment.

| Sky News
Photo of a honey bee about to land on a flower

New research finds Insect-inspired intelligence is the key to robotic autonomy

University of Sheffield spin-out, Opteran Technologies, has collaborated on a new paper which highlights that insect intelligence can inspire an alternative to mainstream approaches to robot intelligence.
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Paul Richmond is a research software engineer in the United Kingdom.Credit: Shelley Richmond

Why science needs more research software engineers

Paul Richmond speaks to Nature about life as a Research Software Engineer, the role of software in the research enterprise and the state of the field as it reaches its tenth anniversary.

| Nature
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We started a commercial software company at our university – and you should too

Mike Holcombe, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science, explains how he launched a software development company at the University and the impact it has had on students' education.

| Published by Time Higher Education