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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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Online abuse towards politicians rises ahead of General Election, study finds

Politicians have been targeted by increasing levels of abuse on social media as the General Election approaches, according to research done by the Department of Computer Science.

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Engineering students win top project prize

​​​​Sheffield students have won the best project in their category at The International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Foundation competition.
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Diamond Dog

Our robot MiRo is lost in the Engineering Faculty building, the Diamond.
Will MiRo find the rest of the robot pack? Watch the video to see MiRo navigate through teaching labs and study spaces.

Robotics kit and staff members

Department of Computer Science donates kit to support SheFest.

The Department of Computer Science are delighted support the SheFest Robotics Programme by donating kit that will be used in workshops to teach young women to build and test their own robots. The kit was purchased with money donated by epiGenesys to help support outreach activities.

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Robots and automation: UK regions and businesses face being left behind

Professor Tony Prescott from our Department of Computer Science and Sheffield Robotics has given evidence to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee ahead of a report published today. The report says that unless the Government increases efforts to manage the transition to automation, UK regions and businesses could find themselves left behind and uncompetitive.