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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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Chatbots could be used to deliver psychotherapy during Covid-19 and beyond

Chatbots could play a key role in helping people with issues around their health and wellbeing, according to a new study led by Dr Matthew Bennion from the University’s Department of Computer Science.
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Researchers develop Artificial Intelligence to prevent new waves of COVID-19

One of our research students has helped develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) ti predict COVID-19 from standard blood tests two weeks earlier that current, existing tests.

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Congratulations to Prof. Roger K. Moore who has been invited to give one of the INTERSPEECH-2020 tutorials!

INTERSPEECH is the main conference in the spoken language processing field. It is organised by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and it attracts over 1000 attendees every year.
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Sheffield scientists sequence over 1,000 Covid-19 genomes to aid pandemic response

Dr Dennis Wang is part of a team who have now produced over 1,000 sequences of the coronavirus genome. The work has been done by scientists and clinicians from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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Computer Science Supports The Sheffield COVID-19 Genomics Group

The Sheffield COVID-19 Genomics Group are sequencing the genomes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus collected from COVID-19 patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals in the hope of better understanding the disease.