The Contact Tracing App Explainer
Eat Move Think
English - June 29, 2020 09:59 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MB - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsFitness Health & Fitness Nutrition fitness nutrition health highperformance mentalhealth performance physicalactivity sleeping wellness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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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.
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James Petrie’s co-founder in Covid Watch is Tina White. Here’s her profile at Stanford.