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Department of Computer Science

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5 June 2020

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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4 June 2020

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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15 May 2020

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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21 April 2020

Professor Thomas Hain elected as ISCA Fellow

We are delighted to announce that Professor Thomas Hain has been elected on one of this year's ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) Fellows for 'leadership in the field of automatic speech recognition.'

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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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Department of Computer Science
The University of Sheffield 
Regent Court
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
UK

Tel: +44 114 222 1800

Email: dcs@sheffield.ac.uk

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