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Fuqua School of Business Professor Campbell Harvey is offering a new class called 'Innovations and Cryptoventures' to students in the Spring 2015 semester. His new class, which has been in development for the last several months, will be available to Law students, MBA students, graduate students, and technically skilled undergraduate students. Other schools that have launched Bitcoin, blockchain, or digital currency related classes or programs include NYU and the University of Nicosia. The mix of students with different skill sets and experience levels is an intentional one, Harvey plans....

The project has been launched to address the lack of skilled personnel working on rapidly evolving technologies in Japan. The University of Tokyo, also known as Todai is set to offer a range of study programs later this year that will take place in the Metaverse.According to a July 23 report from local news outlet The Asahi Shimbun, the courses will be offered to students ranging from high school to adult learners in the workforce.The publication stated that the Metaverse study programs will not be delivered via its own dedicated faculty that offers degrees, but will instead operate under....

The programs, which are funded by a longtime supporter of the university, will teach students about Bitcoin and other digital assets. Cryptocurrencies are attracting a lot of attention from academic institutions as they become increasingly accepted as an alternative to conventional assets. The University of Cincinnati (UC) in Ohio, United States, has even established courses around cryptocurrency as part of its curriculum.In fact, UC is working on two new programs that will educate students about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) and emerging financial technologies, according to a....

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....

The Iowa State University has suffered a massive security breach which compromised the security of student data and attempted to mine bitcoin. The University says the compromised servers contained social security numbers of 29,780 students enrolled between 1995 and 2012. However, there is no indication that any of the files were accessed. No financial information was stored in the student records and further investigation led the university to conclude that personal information was not the target. "The servers were hacked by an unknown person or persons seeking to generate enough computing....