Bitcoin Engineering Course at Stanford University Introduces Hands-on Approach with the 21 Bitcoin Computer
Dr. Balaji Srinivasan and Dr. Dan Boneh started their new course, “Bitcoin Engineering” at Stanford University on Monday, January 4th. The class is a companion to Stanford’s previous Bitcoin-related course, “Crypto Currencies, the Blockchain, and Smart Contracts.” About 85 percent of this quarter’s class will feature new material. The class gives you a....
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Stanford University's Computer Science building. It's safe to assume that anyone reading this knows what Bitcoin is. But did you ever stop and wonder how Bitcoin's underlying technology really works? Bitcoin relies on cryptography to control the currency's creation and transfer. It uses a cryptographic hash function called SHA-256, widely considered to be very secure. But just what does that mean, and why is it important? How does cryptography even work? If you've ever asked yourself these questions, Stanford University has you covered. The California-based university, well-known for its....
Stanford University is offering a lab course on building bitcoin-enabled applications. The course is scheduled to run from Jan. 4 to March 11 from 4:30 p.m. to 5:20 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays in building 420-041 at the Stanford campus. The introduction to bitcoin (Jan. 4) presented concepts like digital signatures, the blockchain, transactions and mining. Instructors are Balaji S. Srinivasan, co-founder and CEO of 21 Inc., and Dan Boneh, a Stanford professor of computer science and electrical engineering. Students will learn how to rewire Internet services based on bitcoin. The school....
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....
Stanford has been active in Bitcoin as a campus. American academia has offered courses across the country on cryptocurrencies for a couple of years now. New York University, Duke University, Princeton and others have all offered courses on Bitcoin. The Stanford University School of Engineering in Stanford, Calif. offers a new course, Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies, for the Autumn semester. 100 students have enrolled and the course features labwork in which students experiment with Bitcoin applications. The syllabus is available here. There is no limit as to how many students may enroll. The....
If you thought that the University of Nicosia's free bitcoin introductory course was a deal, you might be happy to learn that Stanford University is offering a free course on Cryptography, as pointed out on Reddit. The course, Cryptography I, is taught by computer science professor Dan Boneh - who leads the applied cryptography group within the computer science division at Stanford. According to the course description, the course will cover " the inner workings of cryptographic primitives and how to correctly use them". The course is composed of video lectures, quizzes, and programming....