‘Wiki Human Project’

A group of Hollywood visual effects pros that have dubbed themselves the “digital human league” are trying to raise the bar in what we think of as synthetic humans — and they aim to get their work out in early 2015. If you remember early efforts to create CG...

Video stroke recovery

“If you have a stroke in the United States in 2014, you’re better off if you’re a rodent than if you’re a human being,” Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist John Krakauer said when delivering his presentation “Motor Recovery...

North Island animated

Joan Miller may have retired from her position as Vice President of the board of the Association of Film Commissions International, (the body that oversees the approximately 330 film commissions worldwide) but her work on Vancouver Island is far from done. Under...

Free MIT courses

The place where the video game was invented more than 50 years ago now wants to teach teachers, entrepreneurs and students how to design games for the learning — and it is hoping that the end result will be a new kind of tech tool for the classroom. The Massachusetts...

Animated by data

In China nothing quite catches people’s imagination quite like animation. However, while the industry has seen several big success stories such as Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf and Boonie Bears over the years, even more attempts on both small and big screens...