Stanford Joins NYU and Duke in Offering Bitcoin Course
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:
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