Claim: Noel Sharkey was a computer scientist born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, who with the support by an EPSRC Senior Media Fellowship and a Leverhulme Fellowship of the ethics of battlefield robots, held a chair in the Department of Computer Science (from 1994) at the University of Sheffield.
Evidence: Noel Sharkey (born 14 December 1948) is a computer scientist born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was supported by an EPSRC Senior Media Fellowship and a Leverhulme Fellowship of the ethics of battlefield robots. Sharkey held a chair in the Department of Computer Science (from 1994) at the University of Sheffield, and then he was a Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and a Professor of Public Engagement.