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Department of Computer Science

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Job reference: UOS031037
Closing date 3 January 2022

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News

Student winners
29 October 2021

Sheffield Team win the Engineers in Business Innovation Competition

Computer Science student, Chelsie Edun is part of a team of engineering students who have won first prize in the final of the Engineers in Business Champion of Champions innovation competition - ‘big ideas’ category.
25 October 2021

Sheffield engineers reach final of $10m global avatar competition

Researchers from the Department of Computer Science are through to the final of a major global competition to develop an avatar system that can transport human presence to a remote location instantly.
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19 October 2021

Towards an Early Warning System for Violence Against Women Journalists

University of Sheffield researchers are part of a major UK-government funded research project to work towards an early warning system to help detect, predict, and ultimately prevent violence against women journalists.
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29 September 2021

Professor Vasilaki awarded visiting professorship at the University of Zurich

Congratulations to Professor Vasilaki who has been awarded a visiting professorship at the University of Zurich as part of the Inge Strauch program.

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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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