Cryptocurrency part of Stanford's cyber security program
California-based Stanford University has stepped into the arena of cryptocurrecy with its program titled 'Crypto Currencies: Bitcoin and Friends (CS251)' to be launched in September 2015. This is a new course that will be taught by Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science at the Stanford School of Engineering will be teaching this course under Cyber Security Graduate Certificate program. The professor vouched for the cryptocurrency by saying that
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Recognizing the need for advanced engineering to ensure privacy and protection of digital assets, the Stanford University School of Engineering in Stanford, Calif. will offer a new course on this subject in September. The course is called Crypto Currencies: Bitcoin and Friends (CS251). The course will run from Sept. 21 to Dec. 9, 2015. "The technology behind Bitcoin and other crypto currencies can be an indispensable tool for protecting information," said Dan Boneh, a professor of computer science at the school who will be teaching the course. Boneh said virtual currency has the potential....
The growing need for professionals in the digital currency industry has motivated the Stanford University to launch a course focused on cybersecurity and digital currencies like Bitcoin. Crypto Currencies: Bitcoin and Friends (CS251) is the new course taught by Boneh in the Cyber Security certificate program. The course is scheduled to launch in....
Stanford is joining NYU and Duke University in offering a course on bitcoin - kicking off with a free security webinar tomorrow. The college's new course, Crypto Currencies: Bitcoin and Friends, launches on 21st September. Besides Stanford students, it will be open to professionals completing their graduate certificate in cyber security. Computer Science professor Dan Boneh, an expert in applied cryptography, will lead the course - which tackles security across the entire bitcoin ecosystem. In a release he said:
According to the description available online, the Cyber Security Graduate Certificate provides a professional, technical, and policy-oriented view of the challenges created by rapid advancements in information technology. In very short span of Bitcoin’s life, a number of exchanges have been hacked and manipulated by cyber criminals. To address these security issues, Stanford has decided to study topics such as altcoins, Bitcoin transactions, consensus protocols, cryptocurrency, elliptical curves, hash functions, mining strategies and incentives, proposed Bitcoin regulations, and Zerocoin....
World renowned Princeton University has started an online course on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies. The course will be available on Coursera, which is a leading education platform that aims to partner with "leading universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free." Earlier, we had reported that Cryptocurrency was also going to be added to the Stanford's cyber security program. Princeton's cryptocurrency course will be available only in the English language and will need 6-weeks of study with minimum 3-5 dedicated hours per week. In the....