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...

Interactive Excavation

Archaeology investigates the ancient human past based on the things people left behind – from pottery and stone tools to architecture and landscapes. In order to collect information, archaeologists excavate and remove artefacts and structures from a site, so...

Reels of Integrity

You can take Professor Ruby Yang out of film, but you cannot take film out of Ruby Yang.Professor Yang won an Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject in 2007 for The Blood of Yingzhou District about the effects of AIDS on orphans in the province of Anhui in...

Insights on Indigenous Ainu

Professor Edwin Michielsen, who joined HKU’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures as an Assistant Professor specialising in modern Japanese literature in July 2022, was given opportunities last year when he received two fellowships to further his research project...

Speaking to Power

Before social media took hold in the late 2000s, traditional newspapers were a key player in the media landscape, but they mainly reported on the movements and activities of government leaders or, if they were commercialised, on entertainment-oriented news....