Professors create romantic ballet video game
An english and film studies professor from U of A recently collaborated with a computer science master’s candidate to recreate a classic romantic ballet in the form of a video game.
The game, titled iGiselle, is for Microsoft Kinect, and challenges its users to re-enact a tragic ballet by copying the dance poses of the protagonist, Giselle.
Although the female protagonist dies at the end of most classic romantic ballets, the creators of iGiselle decided to “to take a sort of feminist approach, ideally allowing the woman — the ballerina — some agency, and that would involve allowing her to stay alive.”
With files from The Gateway
UBC database hack goes undetected for almost two years
It was recently revealed that over two years ago, UBC was hacked by Team Digi7al, an infamous hacker group who succeeded in stealing information (such as passwords and email addresses) from the school’s very own database.
The group has also infiltrated the US Navy, the US Department of Homeland Security, and Harvard University.
The 24 people whose personal information has been compromised were immediately contacted by the school. Two members from the hacker group are facing punishment for what they did after mentioning the incident on Twitter.
With files from The Ubyssey
Students invent self-powered soybean harvester
Four engineering students at the University of Toronto have created a sustainable soybean harvester to till the farms of Brazil. Teaming up in a graduate design course modeled after the Hydrogen Student Design Contest, the group’s green machine produces zero emissions and powers its own cleaning, storage, driving, and threshing stages.
Dubbing their new start-up PURE (Powerful, Unique, Reliable, and Efficient), all four students presented their vision of greener farming and sustainable production to a panel of expert judges who evaluated the course projects. In the end, the team was awarded first place, earning $180 in prize money and an engraved plaque.
With files from University of Toronto News
