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Collaboration between the Insigneo Institute and the University of Ghana

Dr Ning Ma, Lecturer in Medical Computing, has been awarded partnership development funding & will travel to Ghana with three colleagues to identify challenges & opportunities, & deliver a summer school to foster research skills and academic growth.
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University of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment

The University of Sheffield leads the UK in engineering research income and investment, according to the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).
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Computer Science Alumna Wins Award for Social Action

Congratulations to Computer Science alumna, Dr Qamar Naith, who won the Study UK Alumni Award for Social Action in Saudi Arabia
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Dr. Andrei Popescu receives distinguished paper award at POPL for the third consecutive year

Andrei has received distinguished paper awards at the last three Principle of Programming Languages (POPL) conferences, one of the most prestigious conferences in Computer Science.
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New AI guidance could help businesses and government use the technology

A new framework that could help businesses better understand and use AI has been developed by researchers from the University of Sheffield.
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University of Sheffield spinout company receives £4 million investment to unleash full potential of robotics

Professor Tony Prescott is the Co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of a spinout company aiming to help developers overcome the cost and complexity of programming robots. He advises on AI and robotics and builds relationships with partners.
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Professor Tony Prescott launches new book ‘The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence’

At an in-person event, Professor Tony Prescott launched his new book ‘The Psychology of Artificial Intelligence’.
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Tackling tomorrow’s engineering research challenges

Sheffield is involved in new engineering networks to address key strategic challenges and support future growth.
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Sheffield part of £10million programme to identify individual cancer risk

Doctors could soon be able to predict your individual chances of getting cancer and offer personalised detection and prevention, thanks to a new research project.