News News stories Keep up-to-date with all the latest news from the School of Computer Science. Professor Guy Brown and Dr Ning Ma with the CIDRZ team at the field recording site at Kanyama Level One Hospital, Lusaka. 15 November 2024 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 14 November 2024 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. 13 November 2024 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. 11 November 2024 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. Search Sheffield scientists sequence over 1,000 Covid-19 genomes to aid pandemic response Dr Dennis Wang is part of a team who have now produced over 1,000 sequences of the coronavirus genome. The work has been done by scientists and clinicians from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 15 May 2020 Computer Science Supports The Sheffield COVID-19 Genomics Group The Sheffield COVID-19 Genomics Group are sequencing the genomes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus collected from COVID-19 patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in the hope of better understanding the disease. 11 May 2020 Professor Thomas Hain elected as ISCA Fellow We are delighted to announce that Professor Thomas Hain has been elected on one of this year's ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Fellows for 'leadership in the field of automatic speech recognition.' 21 April 2020 New artificial intelligence tools could help tackle online abuse New tools which could be used to automatically detect and counter abuse on social media, are being developed by researchers in the department 25 February 2020 Department of Computer Science staff donate to two local charities this Christmas. This year the Department of Computer Science have been collecting donations from staff for two local charities: Sheffield S6 foodbank and Mission Christmas cash for kids. 18 December 2019 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous … Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Current page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 … Next page Next › Last page Last »