Title: Stanford opens online course on cryptocurrency and cyber security Post by: milaliss on August 24, 2015, 02:04:03 PM Stanford opens online course on cryptocurrency and cyber security
Stanford University offers a course on digital currency as a part of the online Cyber Security Graduate Certificate program this year. The new course is intended for information security professionals, web developers, and computer network architects. http://www.coinfox.info/news/2833-stanford-opens-online-course-on-cryptocurrency-and-cyber-security Title: Re: Stanford opens online course on cryptocurrency and cyber security Post by: Kingno.1 on August 24, 2015, 02:28:18 PM Stanford opens online course on cryptocurrency and cyber security Stanford University offers a course on digital currency as a part of the online Cyber Security Graduate Certificate program this year. The new course is intended for information security professionals, web developers, and computer network architects. http://www.coinfox.info/news/2833-stanford-opens-online-course-on-cryptocurrency-and-cyber-security Can u give me some more details about course, timing and fees structure, I am from India can i join this course . Tell me the procedure I am interested in this course. :) Title: Re: Stanford opens online course on cryptocurrency and cyber security Post by: Possum577 on August 25, 2015, 06:14:09 AM Can u give me some more details about course, timing and fees structure, I am from India can i join this course . Tell me the procedure I am interested in this course. :) Here's some more information, straight from Stanford University's course catalog: http://scpd.stanford.edu/search/publicCourseSearchDetails.do?method=load&courseId=58085700&showInternal=true CS251 - Crypto Currencies: Bitcoin and Friends Overview The potential application for Bitcoin-like technologies is enormous. This course covers the technical aspects of engineering secure software, system interactions with crypto-currencies, and distributed consensus for reliability. Instructors Dan Boneh Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Topics Include Altcoins Bitcoin transactions Consensus protocols Cryptocurrency Elliptic curves Hash functions Mining strategies and incentives Proposed Bitcoin regulations Zerocoin, zerocash Units Prerequisites CS110 Tuition For course tuition, reduced tuition (SCPD member companies and United States Armed forces), and fees, please click Tuition & Fees Supports a Graduate Certificate in Cyber Security The course only costs ~BTC16 (although I'm not sure Stanford accepts tuition in bitcoin) Title: Re: Stanford opens online course on cryptocurrency and cyber security Post by: Possum577 on August 25, 2015, 08:21:06 PM It looks like MIT is conducting a similar course!
http://www.coindesk.com/mit-course-to-inspire-next-generation-of-bitcoin-ceos/ If Ivy League schools start offering education on the topic, this will be a boon for widespread adoption and it's coming from very intelligent places! Title: Re: Stanford opens online course on cryptocurrency and cyber security Post by: vennali on August 26, 2015, 10:29:21 PM Funny to see this thread in Politics and Society .
It looks like MIT is conducting a similar course! http://www.coindesk.com/mit-course-to-inspire-next-generation-of-bitcoin-ceos/ If Ivy League schools start offering education on the topic, this will be a boon for widespread adoption and it's coming from very intelligent places! I believe MIT will have a great development for the bitcoin ecosystem ahead because of the latest Professor they hired at the Media lab who is really doing a lot of work on bitcoin. I hope they stick to bitcoin and not deviate to creating a new currency or work on a centralized currency system . Title: Re: Stanford opens online course on cryptocurrency and cyber security Post by: Possum577 on August 29, 2015, 06:40:28 PM https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech
I found a BETTER option...it's FREE...and it's from Princeton. Coursera offers free courses from major Universities. Course Syllabus Intro to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies Cryptographic Hash Functions Hash Pointers and Data Structures Digital Signatures Public Keys as Identities Simple Cryptocurrencies How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization Centralization vs. decentralization Distributed consensus Consensus without identity: the block chain Incentives and proof of work Putting it all together Mechanics of Bitcoin Bitcoin transactions Bitcoin scripts Applications of Bitcoin scripts Bitcoin blocks The Bitcoin network Limitations & improvements How to Store and Use Bitcoins Simple Local Storage How to Store and Use Bitcoins Secret Keys Hot and Cold Storage Splitting and Sharing Keys Online Wallets and Exchanges Payment Services Transaction Fees Currency Exchange Markets Bitcoin mining The task of Bitcoin miners Mining hardware Energy consumption & ecology Mining pools Mining incentives and strategies Bitcoin and anonymity Anonymity basics Overview of Bitcoin deanonymization Mixing Decentralized mixing Zerocoin and Zerocash Tor and the Silk Road Community, Politics, and Regulation Consensus in Bitcoin Bitcoin Core Software Stakeholders : Who’s in Charge? Roots of Bitcoin Governments Notice Bitcoin Anti Money-Laundering Regulation New York’s BitLicense Proposal Alternative Mining Puzzles Essential Puzzle Requirements ASIC Resistant Puzzles Proof-of-useful-work Nonoutsourceable Puzzles Proof-of-Stake Bitcoin as a platform Bitcoin as an append-only log Bitcoins as “smart property” Secure multi-party lotteries in Bitcoin Bitcoin as randomness source Prediction markets & real-world data feeds Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem Short History of Altcoins Interaction between Bitcoin and altcoins Lifecycle of an Altcoin Bitcoin-Backed Altcoins, “Side Chains” The future of Bitcoin? The block chain as a vehicle for decentralization Routes to decentralization What can we decentralize? When is decentralization a good idea? |