EPISODE · Jun 29, 2020 · 23 MIN
The Contact Tracing App Explainer
from Eat Move Think · host Ghost Bureau Content Services
There's a national effort underway to get people to download what's known as a contact tracing app. To help listeners understand why they're so important, Eat Move Think host Shaun Francis talks to the University of Waterloo math PhD candidate who pioneered the "decentralized Bluetooth exposure notification" technology that started it all—James Petrie, the director of research at Covid Watch. Also featuring an interview with Florian Kerschbaum, the director of the University of Waterloo's Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. Visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com for complete show notes. Mentioned in this episode: James Petrie's co-founder in Covid Watch is Tina White. Here's her profile at Stanford.
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