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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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Simplifying Text with SIMPATICO

Researchers at the University of Sheffield are building an automatic tool which simplifies online text making it more accessible to readers.
Professor Guy Brown - Head of Department of Computer Science

Prof. Guy Brown reappointed for second four-year term

The Department of Computer Science is delighted to announce that the Head of Department, Prof. Guy Brown, has been reappointed in his role for a second four-year term.
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Dr Haiping Lu receives prestigious Amazon Research Award

Congratulations to Dr Haiping Lu who has been awarded an Amazon Research Award for his work which could help customers find products more easily.
IoC group members

The Institute of Coding celebrates 1st birthday with The University of Sheffield

The University of Sheffield is today celebrating its partnership with the Institute of Coding. In just 12 months, IoC partners have successfully signed-up over 5,000 people onto its leading tech courses at universities across the country.
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MSc Data Analytics students published in pattern recognition journal

Congratulations to MSc Data Analytics Students Peizhen Bai and Fangling Liu who have published a full research paper "Joint Interaction with Context Operation for Collaborative Filtering" in Pattern Recognition Journal (IF 3.96).