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Ahead of the curve
Our MSc in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence has been mentioned by the Financial Times as leading a new era is cybersecurity training.
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Augmented reality experience brings Sheffield’s lost medieval castle to life
One of the most powerful castles in medieval northern England can now be viewed for the first time since it was erased from the face of its city hundreds of years ago. Developed in collaboration with Sheffield-based creative agency Human and a team of computer scientists at the University led by Dr Steve Maddock, the AR experience is based on research by University of Sheffield archaeologists on material uncovered from excavations at the castle in the 1920s and 1950s that is currently curated by Museums Sheffield.
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MP Twitter abuse increased between 2015 and 2017 general elections
Abuse of politicians online increased substantially in the snap 2017 general election compared to the 2015 general election, according to new research by the University of Sheffield.
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The Department of Computer Science joins Amazon’s Alexa Fellowship
Amazon today (22 August 2018) announced the Alexa Graduate Fellowship, designed to foster research and education by supporting PhD and post-doctoral students specializing in conversational AI. The University of Sheffield is among the first universities outside the US to participate in the program
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Students win internship at Rolls-Royce
MSc Data Analytics students Rawaida Kamarudin and Weijiang Lin have been announced as runners up at the Data Storytelling Challenge Competition. As finalists they were rewarded with a 10 week internship at Rolls-Royce
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New report highlights how drones can be used for good of society
A new report demonstrating how drones can come to the rescue in natural disasters, help starving people in conflict and provide emergency medicine has been published today (7 June 2018) by one of the UK’s leading robotics experts, Professor Noel Sharkey, Emeritus Professor of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in the Department.
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New Centre for Speech & Language Technology
The University of Sheffield partners with VoiceBase to launch the Centre for Speech & Language Technology
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Large-Scale Fact Extraction and Verification Dataset Publicly Available
Amazon and University of Sheffield Researchers Make Large-Scale Fact Extraction and Verification Dataset Publicly Available
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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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BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium
This year the Department of Computer Science hosted the annual BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium.
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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.
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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...
Graduate John Wright talks about coming back and working with the Department of Computer Science.
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Sheffield scientists help Nepalese orphans to grow fruit and vegetables
Scientists from the University of Sheffield, including Prof. Hamish Cunningham from the Department of Computer Science, are helping children from a Nepalese orphanage grow their own vegetables with a pioneering, sustainable technique which will provide a vital food supply all year round.
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Department is part of a new EU consortium researching solutions for speech problems
The Department of Computer Science is part of a European-wide project which aims to transform the well-being of people with debilitating speech problems, due to a stroke or Parkinson's disease for example.