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Professor and Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence

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We are seeking an outstanding leader to manage and develop the new Centre for Machine Intelligence at the University of Sheffield. This is a senior professorial position with responsibility for developing and delivering the University’s AI strategy. As Director you will have the opportunity to forge and lead a world-leading, multi-disciplinary research programme for AI, support research-led teaching and deliver responsible impact for this powerful and ground-breaking technology.

Closing date: 25th May. Full details of the opportunity are given in this brochure. Apply here.

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News

15 May 2023

In Memoriam: Professor Yorick Wilks (1939 - 2023)

Professor Yorick Wilks, one of pioneers of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, passed away peacefully at his home in Oxford on 14 April 2023. He was 83.

4 May 2023

Students test their practical skills with award-winning games developer, Sumo Digital

International games developer Sumo Digital gave students the opportunity to put theory into practice with a ‘takeover’ of the Machines and Intelligence module.

2 May 2023

UK Speech 2023 conference to be held in Sheffield

The flagship annual meeting of the UK and Ireland speech technology research communities is coming to the University of Sheffield this June.

26 April 2023

BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium hailed as a huge success

The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium made its long-awaited in-person return as over 200 students visited The University of Sheffield to celebrate women and non-binary people in computer science.

24 April 2023

New tracking technology reveals the hidden foraging lives of desert ants

Groundbreaking tracking technology that has revealed new insights into how desert ants navigate their complex worlds could inspire the next generation of smart, efficient robots.

21 April 2023

Women journalists receive abuse "within seconds" from posting online

The Department's Professor Kalina Bontcheva and Dr Diana Maynard feature after helping to develop a new tool to measure the amount of abuse that journalists receive on Twitter.

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11 April 2023

University of Sheffield becomes member of newly-established Turing University Network

The University of Sheffield has further strengthened its ties with The Alan Turing Institute as it joins the UK’s national centre for data science and AI’s newly launched Turing University Network.

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What's this? MiRo is lost in the Diamond. Will MiRo find the rest of the robot pack? Watch the video to see MiRo navigate through teaching labs and study spaces.

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