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Sheffield AI research highlighted in Financial Times feature on UK digital economy

Professor James Marshall, Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence, discusses how South Yorkshire's physical AI and advanced engineering are driving UK economic growth outside of London.
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Forging a Responsible Future: University of Sheffield's Centre for Machine Intelligence Unveils 2026 Strategy

The University of Sheffield’s Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI) has launched its Strategy 2026, a plan to advance artificial intelligence while championing responsible, human-centric development.
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New external advisory board appointed for the Centre for Machine Intelligence

Ten leaders from organisations from industry, government, and the third sector, have joined a new advisory board to guide AI research at the University of Sheffield.

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Engineering You’re Hired students showcase innovation and creativity at the Engineers and Scientists in Business Final

The entrepreneurial talent and creativity of our students was celebrated at the 2026 Engineers and Scientists in Business Competition Final.
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Towards an Early Warning System for Violence Against Women Journalists

University of Sheffield researchers are part of a major UK-government funded research project to work towards an early warning system to help detect, predict, and ultimately prevent violence against women journalists.
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Research students beat the competition to be accepted by the NeurIPS 2021 conference.

Two PhD students, Tom McDonald and Magnus Ross, have had their submissions accepted by the NeurIPS 2021 conference. Competition was tough - from more than 9000 applications only 26% of submissions were accepted for the poster presentation.
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Professor Vasilaki awarded visiting professorship at the University of Zurich

Congratulations to Professor Vasilaki who has been awarded a visiting professorship at the University of Zurich as part of the Inge Strauch program.
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MSc student contributes to paper published in a major NLP conference.

Congratulations to our MSc student who has had their paper accepted by the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG) .
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Athena SWAN Silver Award win

The Department of Computer Science at The University of Sheffield is proud to announce that it has been successful in renewing its Athena SWAN Silver Award for another five years.