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University of Sheffield is accelerating the UK’s AI future with NVIDIA

The University of Sheffield and NVIDIA are working together to advance the UK’s AI future through research, education, and upskilling initiatives.
Dr Marco Valentino

Meet new Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence & Applications of AI: Dr Marco Valentino

Find out more about Dr Marco Valentino, his experience and what he will bring to the AI community at University of Sheffield.
Jon Stammers and Tom Hayward

Announcing Our New Joint Theme Leads for Engineering and Manufacturing

The Centre for Machine Intelligence (CMI) is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Jon Stammers and Prof. Tom Hayward as our new joint Theme Leads for Engineering and Manufacturing.
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Beyond the algorithm: Shaping AI for people, not just progress

We're excited to announce our partnership with the Faculty of Arts and Humanities on their new campaign, Beyond the Algorithm: Shaping AI for People, Not Just Progress.
Professor Guy Brown and Dr Ning Ma with the CIDRZ team at the field recording site at Kanyama Level One Hospital, Lusaka.

Computer Science academics strengthen AI health research links with the Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ)

Dr Ning Ma and Professor Guy Brown from the School of Computer Science recently visited Zambia to initiate a second project that will research the potential of using AI analysis of cough sound to screen for tuberculosis (TB).

Understanding how robots could fit into the social fabric of human society

Meet Miro! This animal-like robot integrated with AI perception and language models featured at the University's Festival of the Mind 2024 and received lots of interest from the public interested in the possibility of robot companions.
second year computer science student, Shohail Ismail, infront of a big IBM sign

Computer Science student places highly at IBM TechXchange hackathon

Second-year Computer Science student, Shohail Ismail, recently placed 5th at the IBM TechXchange watsonx hackathon out of over 4,000 participants.
Generative AI: what actually is it?

Educ-AI-tion Week 2024: Find out more about GenAI and education at Sheffield

Educ-AI-tion Week 2024 (11-15 November) aims to support you in exploring responsible, critical and ethical approaches to the use of AI in education.
Cows in a fied

AI-powered project to transform UK beef farming

The University of Sheffield is part of the £1.2m UKRI-funded BeefTwin project, using AI to tackle key environmental and economic challenges in beef farming.