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Why do we vote with paper in the age of the smart phone?
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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Oct 27, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Despite a pandemic, nearly everyone voting in the upcoming US election will do so with a tick in a box on a piece of paper. They may post their ballot, or go in person to a voting station, but the process is still physical. Why? Presenter Gareth Mitchell will be asking election voting advisor Susan Greenhalgh.
Despite the prevalence of paper, there are some voting machines in the USA, Beatrice Atobatele tells us why she bought one online and how hacking into it could help to make the coming US election more secure.
Also on the programme, data is central to nearly everything in computing today. It presents issues, but imagine if you could train your machines on clean, orderly, high quality data? Well a new technique to generate clean data artificially has been released, open source, by MIT. We explore what this could mean with Nicolai Baldin, the CEO of the London company ‘Synthesised’.
(Image: Getty Images)
Presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert comment from Bill Thompson
Produced by Rory Galloway
Studio Manager: Giles Aspen
Despite the prevalence of paper, there are some voting machines in the USA, Beatrice Atobatele tells us why she bought one online and how hacking into it could help to make the coming US election more secure.
Also on the programme, data is central to nearly everything in computing today. It presents issues, but imagine if you could train your machines on clean, orderly, high quality data? Well a new technique to generate clean data artificially has been released, open source, by MIT. We explore what this could mean with Nicolai Baldin, the CEO of the London company ‘Synthesised’.
(Image: Getty Images)
Presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert comment from Bill Thompson
Produced by Rory Galloway
Studio Manager: Giles Aspen
Released:
Oct 27, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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