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External advisory board members

New external advisory board appointed for the Centre for Machine Intelligence

Ten leaders from organisations from industry, government, and the third sector, have joined a new advisory board to guide AI research at the University of Sheffield.

EYH winning team

Engineering You’re Hired students showcase innovation and creativity at the Engineers and Scientists in Business Final

The entrepreneurial talent and creativity of our students was celebrated at the 2026 Engineers and Scientists in Business Competition Final.
Carolina Scarton

“If you tell kids they can’t go on social media, that’s exactly what they will do.”

Dr Carolina Scarton speaks to Sheffield Tribune on the increasing number of children using social media who are being targeted with lies online.
Data verification abstract AI

School of Computer Science awarded funding to build datasets shaping the future of AI

The project builds datasets to stress-test AI’s ability to safely analyze complex charts, tables, and long text within professional fact-checking scenarios.
abstract image showing Ai music generation

New AI project unveils open-source models to boost computational music research

Researchers have launched the Multimodal Art Projection (MAP) project to provide high-performance and cost-effective open source models to the computational music research communities, as well as professional and amateur musicians more broadly.
Yorick Wilks

In Memoriam: Professor Yorick Wilks (1939 - 2023)

Professor Yorick Wilks, one of pioneers of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, passed away peacefully at his home in Oxford on 14 April 2023. He was 83.

Sumo takeover Jake Hapgood

Students test their practical skills with award-winning games developer, Sumo Digital

International games developer Sumo Digital gave students the opportunity to put theory into practice with a ‘takeover’ of the Machines and Intelligence module.
MRG The Wave building photo

UK Speech 2023 conference to be held in Sheffield

The flagship annual meeting of the UK and Ireland speech technology research communities is coming to the University of Sheffield this June.
SWiCS at the BCSLovelace colloquium

BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium hailed as a huge success

The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium made its long-awaited in-person return as over 200 students visited The University of Sheffield to celebrate women and non-binary people in computer science.