{"id":2242,"date":"2011-07-06T08:55:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T12:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=2242"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:37:08","slug":"cognitive-science-alumnus-helps-harry-potter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2011\/cognitive-science-alumnus-helps-harry-potter\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Science Alumnus Helps Harry Potter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Cognitive Science Alumnus Helps Harry Potter\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben Houston, a graduate of the B.A. (Honours) program in Cognitive Science, has come to the rescue of the makers of the most recent Harry Potter film. His software company, Exocortex, has provided the film makers with programming expertise. His software helped the makers of the upcoming movie&nbsp; create the special effects for the Pensieve, a magical bowl of water that allows Harry to experience memories of other people. Read the full story in the Ottawa Citizen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Houston, a graduate of the B.A. (Honours) program in Cognitive Science, has come to the rescue of the makers of the most recent Harry Potter film. His software company, Exocortex, has provided the film makers with programming expertise. His software helped the makers of the upcoming movie&nbsp; create the special effects for the Pensieve, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6194,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions\/6194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}