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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.

Academics from the University of Sheffield's Centre for Machine Intelligence being presented with an award on stage at the UKAIRS symposium
Academics from the University's Centre for Machine Intelligence have won an impact award at the UK's first national conference for AI research. The award recognises their research that is driving the responsible use of AI. Credit: UK AI Research Symposium

University of Sheffield researchers win UK first national AI prize

A new award recognising the strength and impact of the UK’s AI research, has been awarded to academics at the University of Sheffield.

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Amazon and University of Sheffield Researchers Make Large-Scale Fact Extraction and Verification Dataset Publicly Available

Dr Andreas Vlachos and PhD student, James Thorne, from the Department have been working with Amazon to make large-scale fact extraction and verification dataset publicly available.
Academic staff and visitors in the Diamond

University of Sheffield forges prestigious new partnerships with China

The University of Sheffield has Today (26 April 2018) signed a collaboration agreement with China’s leading Tsinghua University to work with its groundbreaking Future Lab.
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University of Sheffield wins bid to enhance collaboration on the Internet of Things

The University of Sheffield has won a bid which will fund a new project, in collaboration with the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Newcastle, to drive forward collaboration concerned with the Internet of Things.
Bees

Honeybees may unlock the secrets of how the human brain works

Researchers from the University of Sheffield have discovered that looking at honeybees in a colony in the same way as neurons in a brain could help us better understand the basic mechanisms of human behaviour.
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Giving something back...

John Wright graduated in the early 90s with a degree in Software Engineering. Now in 2018, he has come back to share his industry expertise by joining the Departmental Industrial Advisory Board and supervising student dissertation projects.