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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.

Forget travel restrictions - new app can transport you anywhere in the world in the body of a robot

With the future of international travel looking uncertain for most people, new technology developed by Cyberselves, a recent University of Sheffield spinout, could enable people to see, hear and feel anywhere in the world via a robot.
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Global trends in online violence against women journalists revealed by new report

A new report highlighting a sharp increase in online violence against women journalists - featuring contributions from researchers at the University of Sheffield - has been published.
Text reads. Social Mining and Big Data Analytics. So Big Data. Challenge Us! 2021

Researchers from the Challenge Us programme are working with business to help explore the potentials of Big Data.

The Challenge Us programme provides free advice from Italian and European research institutions and universities to companies wishing to explore the potential of data they generate during the production, marketing, interactions with customers and the
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Dr Emma Norling joins the QAA advisory group for Computing

Congratulations to Dr Emma Norling who will join a group of experts to review the current QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for Computing.
Dr Heidi Christensen holding an award.

Congratulations to Dr Heidi Christensen who won the FDM everywoman in Technology award in the Academic Category.

This award recognises women in academia who have made an outstanding contribution to technology and science and whose work has made or has the potential to make a significant long-term impact in STEM.