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, in...

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 amate...

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.

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 cou...

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.

Byte Into IT is presented this week by Warren, James and Cassie who discuss games industry funding, the release of the Pokemon Go app and the introduction of driverless cars to Melbourne. They're also joined by guests Al Cossar speaking about the Virtual Reality program at the Melbourne International Film Festival and Kelly Tagalan, President of Code Club Australia, talking about the upcoming worl...

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.

Cassandra Wright, James Noble and Warren Davies discuss the changing online landscape with the shutting down of Yahoo and changes to online tax returns. They're also speaking with guest Felicity Fenner, curator of People Like Us, an exhibition looking at the interrelationship between art technology and the human experience. And Leigh and Elissa Harris from Flat Earth Games come in to talk about th...

This week's guests are Erik and Dan from GoHear who discus their local gig-finding app which syncs events with the soundcloud profiles of bands. The Byte team are also chatting about Facebook's role in national diplomacy, National Broadband Network policies in the upcoming election, and virtual reality technologies. Presented by Vanessa Toholka, Collin Jacobs and Dan Salmon.

This week on Byte into IT: Ethan Marcotte and Karen McGrane Spoke to Laura summers during the week to discuss digital design. Lots of tech news this week to dive into Presented by: James, Dan and Vanessa

This week on Byte into IT: Owen Kelly, Director of Technology at Schwartz Media and Nick Hodges, head of Commercial innovation at news corps join us in the studio to talk about current tech news. Presented by: Cassie and Warren

This week on Byte into IT: Dan Groch & Ezekiel Kigbo are here to talk about what "Code for Australia" Has been up too. PhD researcher Kayla Heffernan joins us to talk about the rise of insertable technology's such as microchips and the surprising ways they are already being implemented. Presented by: Dan, Cade and Vanessa

This week on Byte into IT: Miguel Sicart joins us in studio and we discuss the value of play and the impact that remaining playful in our Adult lives has on our well being. Rik de Boer & Chris Burgess debate the pro's and cons of open source. Presented by: Laura, Dan & Warren

This week on Byte into IT: Dr Lauren Rosewarne Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne is here to discuss her book "Cyberbullies, Cyberactivists, Cyberpredators: Film, TV, and Internet Stereotypes". We are also joined by Pozible General Manager Claire Merquita & Communications Coordinator Bron Belcher, are here to talk about their website r...

This week on Byte into IT Proffessor Hugh Davies Joins us to talk about art and the connected future and the technological side of arts production, co-founder of Signal ventures Elena Daniel is here to talk about her investment start-up. Presented by: Warren, Simon and Cassie

This week on Byte into IT: Joshua Young from AUUG ( www.auug.com ) is in the studio with his gesture controlled synthesizer. Emily Harridge founding director of visual playground joins us to talk about virtual reality. Presented by: Dan, Warren and James

This week on Byte into IT: Carmel Dollinson from Tech Collect is going to help us get rid of our e-waste safely and Richard Yanieri from YTEK pops in to discuss their automated debriefing system designed to assist in training med students. Presented by: Cassie, Vanessa and Simon.

The Byte is Back! In the studio this week: Dr Suelette Dreyfuss, Melbourne University academic and author of "Underground", is here helping us stay secure online and get the government away from your browser. And Bonnie Shaw from the City of Melbourne gives some insight into the concept of "Smart Cities". Presented by: Vanessa Toholka, Warren Davies and James Noble.

This week on Byte into IT: Alice Glenn of 'No lights, no Lycra' is in the studio talking about their new app 'Dance Break' and Laura is talking with Cap Watkins from Buzzfeed for Web Directions. Presented by Warren Davies, Dan Salmon and Simon Brown. Keep up with all things Byte on Twitter , Facebook , and G+

On this week's Byte: Chris Burgess from Clickify chats about open source communities and Tom Loosemore is interviewed in the latest instalment of 'Wed Directions'.Presented by Vanessa Toholka, James Noble and Laura SummersKeep up with all things Byte on Twitter , Facebook , and G+

This week on Byte, Dan attends "Future Assembly" Technology festival in Melbourne and Laura speaks with Majeic Ceglowski about the web and all the things it could be. Presented by: Dan Salmon, Warren Davies and Simon Brown. Keep up with all things Byte on Twitter , Facebook , and G+

On this week's Byte: Guests: Envato is the leading marketplace globally for a whole lot of useful creative assets - Venessa Paech joins the team to discuss the amazing stuff you can find on Envato, as well as the upcoming Swarm Conference , two days of community management goodness, in Sydney September 2-3. Machine Learning and neural networks are only getting more exciting (and confusing) - Melbo...