Safety First

The project, which is a collaboration between the Faculty of Architecture’s MetaBIM Research Lab and the Home Affairs Department (HAD), was born out of a tragedy in March 2022, when fire swept through a subdivided tenement in Mong Kok district, killing one woman.“My...

Reading Between the Lines

The team led by Professor Shelley Tong Xiuli from the Faculty of Education have published an original theory that bridges language skills and reading comprehension, and developed an innovative programme to help Chinese-English bilingual children with reading...

AI for All

People are bombarded everyday with information about and created by AI technology. Some of it may be true, some misleading, some deliberately wrong. But it can be difficult to separate facts from the noise. With that in mind, the University is launching a mandatory...

Arts Faculty Launches Tech Lab

Large language models (LLMs) are the bedrock for generative artificial intelligence, but most of the focus on them has been from a computing perspective. Yet LLMs have their origins in language, a topic normally related to the arts, not computer science.Linguists and...

The Challenges with Computer Vision

The power of computers to ‘see’ – to recognise visual patterns – is being tapped for all sorts of purposes, from enabling autonomous vehicles, to providing fast and comprehensive analysis of medical image results, to recognising faces. But there...