Triangulation (Audio)

Dan Ackerman is a tech journalist who writes for CNET. His latest book, The Tetris Effect: The Game That Hypnotized the World, is an exploration of the tumultuous history of the game Tetris. This history is part startup tale, part Cold War thriller, and part courtroom drama. The story of Tetris, its global spread, and its effect on the worlds of culture and science make for a fascinating book.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Dan Ackerman

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Mikkel Aaland is the author of The River in My Backyard, a combination memoir and photography book. He is also one of the earliest writers about digital photography, starting with the 1992 book Digital Photography. He talks with Leo about his history in digital photography, and the tragic events in his family's life that prompted him to write The River in My Backyard.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Mikkel Aaland

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One week and one day before the 2016 US elections, Leo talks to verifiedvoting.org founders Ron Rivest and David Dill about the dangers of election fraud and how to design a "perfect" voting system. Ron Rivest is an Institute Professor at MIT, and the "R" in the RSA and RC2, RC4, RC5, and RC6 encryption algorithms. David Dill is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, and an advocate for integrity and transparency in modern elections. Ron and David talk with Leo about the difference between the rare and relatively harmless retail voting fraud possible with traditional paper ballots, and the potentially devastating wholesale election fraud possible with electronic voting machines. They explain why the ideal voting system today relies on paper ballots, and why voting online is, and may never be, a secure system.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Ron Rivest and David Dill

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Jerry Kaplan has been working on artificial intelligence since the 1950s. He explains to Leo the difference between general artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. He also explains why he thinks the idea of the Singularity is nonsense, that the real thing the Turing Test describes is trickery rather than intelligence, and that much of the current hype over the development of AI is just that: hype. He does think that the current growth of machine learning can and will transform the economy - many jobs will be replaced through automation, but many other opportunities will be created.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Jerry Kaplan

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Andy Walker and Sean Carruthers co-hosted Call for Help in Toronto with Leo. Their new book, Super You: How Technology is Revolutionizing What it Means to Be Human, is about the very bodies with which we live.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guests: Andy Walker and Sean Carruthers

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Ben Wizner is the Director of the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, and primary legal advisor to Edward Snowden. Ben and Leo talk about Edward Snowden and the important role journalism plays as a balance to government intelligence agencies. They also discuss the ACLU's history fighting the Communications Decency Act, the Patriot Act, the secrecy behind the US No Fly List, and Apple's battle against the FBI.

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Ben Wizner

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Megan sits in for Leo and talks with Trisha Hershberger. Trisha got her start on SourceFed, and has gone on to create her own production company to make YouTube and Twitch shows. She talks about how making your own studio can be a lot more complicated than just pointing a camera at yourself. Also, the challenges of being a woman who loves tech and performing - how being a booth babe can be fun, but being treated like "just" a booth babe can be a drag.

Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Trisha Hershberger

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Jason talks with Marques Brownlee, one of YouTube's best technology reviewers.

Host: Jason Howell

Guest: Marques Brownlee

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Megan Morrone fills in for Leo and talks to Tim Stevens, Editor-at-Large at CNET and Roadshow.

Host: Megan Morrone

Guest: Tim Stevens

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Mark McCahill is an American programmer who has been involved in developing and popularizing a number of Internet technologies since the late 1980s. Mark is best known for helping create the first popular Internet e-mail clients, POPmail, for the Macintosh (and later the PC). He also developed the gopher protocol, as well as coined the phrase "surfing the web".

Host: Leo Laporte

Guest: Mark McCahill

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