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How does the contact tracking app work? - In Conversation with Mischa Dohler

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  • Duration: 7 mins
  • Publication date: 18 May 2020
  • Part of series COVID-19 Updates, In Conversation

Abstract

We talk to Mischa Dohler, Professor of Wireless Communications at King's College London. We talk about contact tracking apps, how they function, and the potential good they good do.

Keywords:
  • AI
  • App
  • App tracking
  • COVID-19
  • NHS
  • Wi-Fi
  • blockchain
  • bluetooth
  • coronavirus
  • data
  • pandemic
  • privacy
  • smartphone
  • tracking device

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    Professor Mischa Dohler

    Mischa Dohler - Professor at King's College London, Fellow of IEEE/RAEng/RSA/IET, Cofounder of Worldsensing/Movingbeans/SiriusInsight
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