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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.
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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.

Professor Roger Moore at a conference

Professor Roger Moore awarded the ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Special Services Medal.

Congratulations to Professor Roger Moore who has been awarded the ISCA Special Service Medal for service in the establishment, leadership and international growth of ISCA.

Talking with Robots

Watch Prof. Moore's keynote "Talking with Robots: Are We Nearly There Yet?"
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Department Grant Success

We’re delighted to announce that the department has had a successful grant application.
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Number one in the Russell Group for student satisfaction

We are number one in the Russell Group for student satisfaction in computer science according to the latest National Student Survey (NSS).
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Bees are helping design the next generation of autonomous technology

Our experts have gone back to nature to find a solution to the problem of machine learning.