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University of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment

The University of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment, according to the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
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Computer Science Alumna Wins Award for Social Action

Congratulations to Computer Science alumna, Dr Qamar Naith, who won the Study UK Alumni Award for Social Action in Saudi Arabia
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Dr. Andrei Popescu receives distinguished paper award at POPL for the third consecutive year

Andrei has received distinguished paper awards at the last three Principle of Programming Languages (POPL) conferences, one of the most prestigious conferences in Computer Science.
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New AI guidance could help businesses and government use the technology

A new framework that could help businesses better understand and use AI has been developed by researchers from the University of Sheffield.
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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).
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Can new drugs be tested with computers? EU-funded team explores the future of tuberculosis drugs testing

Researchers from the University of Sheffield’s Departments of Computer Science, and Maths are part of a consortium which has published the technical report “A modelling framework to simulate the dynamics of the human immune system”.

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Dr Achim Brucker joins panel of experts at the Sheffield City Regional QER

Dr Achim Brucker was part of a panel of experts at the recent Sheffield City Regional Quarterly Economic Review (QER) breakfast.
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Augmented reality experience brings Sheffield’s lost medieval castle to life

One of the most powerful castles in medieval northern England can now be viewed for the first time since it was erased from the face of its city hundreds of years ago. Developed in collaboration with Sheffield-based creative agency Human and a team of computer scientists at the University led by Dr Steve Maddock, the AR experience is based on research by University of Sheffield archaeologists on material uncovered from excavations at the castle in the 1920s and 1950s that is currently curated by Museums Sheffield.
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Ahead of the curve

Our MSc in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence has been mentioned by the Financial Times as leading a new era in cybersecurity training.