Digital Village Radio
Digital Village is the oldest running technology radio show in Los Angeles. We cover topics like advancements in AI, biotech, and combating climate change, as well as special segments on technology and how it influences culture, with A View from the Outside and The New Modality. The future isn’t being televised, but it is being digitized on 90.7 FM KPFK Los Angeles.
Digital Village Radio
Episode 19: COVID-19 Update - Jaleesa Trapp - Flaws in Facial Recognition
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Brittney Gallagher, Dr, Jun Axup, Jaleesa Trapp, Dr. Peter Eckersley
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Season 1
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Episode 19
(01:19) In the first part of the show, Dr. Jun Axup is back to give us a COVID-19 best practices update - hint - wear. a. mask.
(5:26) On Digital Village, we love to highlight people who are doing amazing work in technology. One of those people is Jaleesa Trapp, a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab in the Lifelong Kindergarten group. We talk about her hero's journey and what she's doing to make her STEM more equitable.
(20:44) In the last part of the show, Dr. Peter Eckersley is here to talk about the incident in Detroit where Robert Williams, a Black man, was wrongfully arrested due to a mistaken identity from facial recognition software used by the police department and what we need to do to make sure this stops happening.