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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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School children will be able to program a robotic pet from home with the help of learning resources, tests, and lesson plans for teachers. Credit: Consequential Robotics

Robotics distance learning project could close skills gap and boost economy

A new distance learning project that will enable more people to develop skills in robotics and autonomous systems, to help close the skills gap and drive forward productivity in the UK, is being launched by researchers from our deparment.
Zilico device

Scientists to develop pain-free device to detect oral cancer

A research collaboration has been awarded £1m in funding from SBRI Healthcare – an NHS England initiative – to test and develop a pain-free, non-invasive and instantaneous method to detect oral cancer.

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Chatbots could be used to deliver psychotherapy during Covid-19 and beyond

Chatbots could play a key role in helping people with issues around their health and wellbeing, according to a new study led by Dr Matthew Bennion from the University’s Department of Computer Science.
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Researchers develop Artificial Intelligence to prevent new waves of COVID-19

One of our research students has helped develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) ti predict COVID-19 from standard blood tests two weeks earlier that current, existing tests.

Prof. Roger K. Moore

Congratulations to Prof. Roger K. Moore who has been invited to give one of the INTERSPEECH-2020 tutorials!

INTERSPEECH is the main conference in the spoken language processing field. It is organised by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and it attracts over 1000 attendees every year.