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AI could learn from data beyond vision and language to make it more practical, trustworthy and improve its understanding.

New ‘blueprint’ for advancing practical, trustworthy AI

A new ‘blueprint’ for building AI that highlights how the technology can learn from different kinds of data to make it more deployable in the real world, has been developed by researchers at the University of Sheffield and the Alan Turing Institute.
Or Meir

Welcoming Professor Or Meir to the School of Computer Science

Professor Meir joins us in his role as Professor of Algorithms.
AI For Math Fund

Sheffield to lead $1M project on AI-powered theorem proving, funded by Renaissance Philanthropy and XTX Markets

Titled ‘Copilots for Isabelle: Learning Logical Structure for a Better Proving Experience’, will advance the foundations and technology of interactive theorem proving, developing next-generation methods for proof assistants.
Bei and Amir

Meet our new academics

We are delighted to be welcoming Bei Peng, Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence & Applications of AI, and Amir Ghalamzan, Associate Professor, to the School of Computer Science.

Department collects donations from staff for charities

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.
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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.

Engineering students

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.