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Eamonn Homes and Dr Hilary use Active 10 App
Eamonn Holmes and Dr. Hilary Jones LIVE in Birmingham to encourage 650,000 inactive adults in West Midlands to get brisk walking by using the Active 10 App developed by researchers in the Department.
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First walking app of its kind launches to help adults be more physically active
Public Health England (PHE) launches a new One You physical activity campaign today (24 August) to encourage people to build 10 minute brisk walks into their day with the free Active 10 app, developed in partnership with researchers from the Department of Computer Science at The University of Sheffield.
The Active 10 app is the first of its kind to measure how much brisk walking you are doing and highlights how many continuous chunks of ten minutes – know as Active 10s – are achieved each day.
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Distinguished Paper Awards
Researchers have received distinguished paper awards at two conferences.
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Computer Science aims to accelerate its deep learning research with AI supercomputer
Computer Science at the University of Sheffield have announced it has invested in the NVIDIA® DGX-1™ AI supercomputer to accelerate research in deep learning.
As part of the new Sheffield Advanced Research Computer cluster the new supercomputer plays an important part in the department’s plans to become a centre of expertise for deep learning in the UK.
This article is located in a different section of the University of Sheffield website.
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Students vote Sheffield number 1 in the Russell Group
Sheffield has been voted the top Russell Group university in the Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2017, and the Students' Union is named the UK's best for the ninth year in a row.
This article is located on a different website.
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Department of Transport funded project paves the way for road network simulations
Researchers from the Department of Computer Science, alongside industrial collaborators TSS-Transport Simulation Systems have been awarded over £22,000 for their work on road network simulations by Department for Transport.
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Sheffield and Siemens next generation transport modelling
Staff from the Departments of Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Automatic Control and Systems Engineering have been collaborating to develop the Siemens Sheffield Advanced Multimodal Simulator (S2AM).
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Professor Richard Clayton published in The Journal of Physiology
Professor Richard Clayton has had an article published in The Journal of Physiology with his paper Uncertainty and variability in computational and mathematical models of cardiac physiology.
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£1 million grant to shed light on how we learn languages
£1 million grant to help researchers understand what speakers know about languages, in order to help make learning foreign languages easier, has been awarded to the University of Sheffield.
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Fake news clampdown
Researchers at Sheffield receive funding from Google to work on fact-checking projects. Story featured in The Guardian.
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Department donates at Christmas time
Staff and students have generously donated essential items to help the homeless in Sheffield.
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How Britain talked Brexit
Ground breaking analysis by researchers from the Department of Computer Science featured in Buzzfeed
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Prof. Vasilaki quoted in New Scientist
Prof. Vasilaki quoted in New Scientist
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New Professor of Computer and Information Security Appointed
We are delighted to announce that Professor John Clark, currently of the University of York, will be joining us as our new Professor of Computer and Information Security in April 2017.
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EPSRC Programme Grant for Prof James Marshall
Have you ever wanted to know if it's possible to design an autonomous flying robot with the navigational and learning abilities of a honeybee? Prof. James Marshall and his team will be looking to answer this question in their new project, Brains on Board: Neuromorphic Control of Flying Robots.