Byte Into IT

Janet Carr, creator and producer of ABC's Good Game calls in to discuss their 10th birthday.

Jo, Simon and Vanessa on the panel this week discussing this weeks news in technology, including the scandal that is Samsung's new exploding phone and the recent Dropbox data breach. Zac McClelland and Maria Pantolini from VicHyper come in to talk about their progress as the only Aussie team left in a 'hyperloop' competition.

Laura, Dan and James talking internet, computing and technology on the panel this week. Ben Schwarz & Karolina Szczur - organisers of CSSConf and JSConf come in to talk about the hard work involved in designing conferences for diversity. Professor Julian Thomas from the Swinburne institute of social research calls in to explain and discuss the 2016 Digital Inclusion Index.

Cassie Dan and James fill us in on public concerns surrounding the online data storing of census information and apples claim that Australian banks may be causing a security problem for iphones.

Laura summers shares more interviews from the 2016 Web Directions conference with Stephanie Rewis, Lead Developer on Design Systems at Salesforce UX and Dmitry Baranovskiy, a Sydney-based web developer, interested in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XSLT and SVG.

Warren Davies and Laura Summers fill us in on controversial changes to census taking place this year, laptops made from smart phones and silicon valleys uber investor Peter Thiel's eyebrow raising behaviour.

Guest Wilfred Gee talks about the search for exoplanet's and Project Panoptes, Panoptic Astronomical Networked Observatories for a Public Transiting exoplanet Survey. Designed to empower amateur astronomers across the globe.

Laura Summers shares conversations from the Web Directions conference with Kate Mclaughin and Rob Howard.

Vanessa Toholka, Colin Jacobs and Jo Eaton host an election special featuring Dr Vanessa Teague, Senior Lecturer at University of Melbourne in Dept of Computing and Information Systems, discussing electronic voting and Anthony Wong, President of the Australian Computing Society, discussing the vital ICT issues for our future government, including STEM skills, diversity in the sector, and the NBN.

Cassia Wright, Vanessa Toholka and Laura Summers speak with Nicholas Therkelsen-Terry from Max Kelson Data Analytics company in Brisbane about his work with social media data sets. Emily Siddons and Arieh Offman speak about their event at ACMI the Retrolympiad.

This week we hear from the founder of Aussie start up Max Kelsen, Nicholas Therkelsen-Terry on large data collection and analysis.

Emily Sittons and Ari Offman from ACMI talk us through the upcoming Olympic inspired RETROLYMPIAD, "an evening of food, drinks and Olympics inspired retro videogames from the 80s through to the 2000 Sydney Olympics". RETROLYMPIAD will be happening July 23rd.

And of course the globe sweeping craze PokemonGo. Hosted by Vanessa Toholka, Cassandra Wright and Laura Summers, what's not to like about this weeks Byte Into It!?

Vanessa Toholka and Cassie Wright speak with Guest Steinar Ellingson on the upcoming Melbourne Web Festival - a festival celebrating web series and Professor Justin Zobel on 60 years of computing, talking about how the world's 4th computer was built by the CSIRO, and is now living in the Melbourne Museum.