2022-9-26 14:41 |
The only university representing the Middle East takes the No. 48 spot. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week. origin »
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An interdisciplinary approach to blockchain – and key industry sponsors – elevated the famed Pittsburgh University 11 spots to No. 22. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 19:31 | |
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With four blockchain graduate programs, the top U.K. school on our list lands at No. 7. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:52 | |
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A blockchain project to support African farmers is one of the highlights of the blockchain research projects at the No. 49-ranked school. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:41 | |
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The No 47-ranked school offers diverse blockchain courses from the humanities, law and engineering. departments. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:41 | |
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The No. 46-ranked school started the first joint university-industry research lab. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:40 | |
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Blockchain research papers have received more than 3,000 citations for the scholars at Australia's No. 45-ranked school. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:40 | |
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The oldest private research university in the Golden State leverages industry partnerships to land at the No. 43 spot. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:39 | |
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Three graduate degree programs including for a PhD help this 439-year-old school land at No. 41. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:38 | |
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With a $2 billion annual budget, the only Japanese school supports blockchain research and industry partnership to land the No. 40 spot. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:38 | |
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Industry partnerships and two blockchain research centers propels Cyprus' top university to No. 39. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:37 | |
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Building a campus in the metaverse is one way our No. 38-ranked school teaches blockchain. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:37 | |
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An active student-run blockchain society guides this 813-year-old school to No. 37. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:37 | |
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A billion-dollar budget and a Digital Transformation Initiative lifts the sole Norwegian university on our list to the No. 36 spot. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:36 | |
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The No. 35 school has a lively interdisciplinary blockchain initiative with a goal of promoting the state's blockchain industry. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:35 | |
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The near-mythical birthplace of the computer age, this elite Northern California school jumped up three spots to No. 8 on the strength of its blockchain research center. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:35 | |
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With blockchain-related courses from the engineering, business and law schools and even from student blockchain clubs, this prized public University attains the No. 4 spot. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:34 | |
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A $6M grant sets this Ivy League school – ranked No. 34 – on a path to accelerate its research in blockchain systems and privacy. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:34 | |
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Ten student blockchain clubs and societies demonstrate the enthusiasm for blockchain that contributes to this public university's debut at No. 32. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:33 | |
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Blockchain initiatives, important guest speakers and dynamic courses elevate this eminent university to No. 31. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:33 | |
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With 15 courses and two degree programs, the flagship of the Illinois university system sits at the No. 30 ranking. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:32 | |
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Australia's largest university features a blockchain research center that has built several protocols, landing the school at the No. 29 spot. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:31 | |
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An integration of university research with industry collaboration sets the No. 28-ranked school apart. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:31 | |
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The oldest university in the English-speaking world lands at the No. 26 spot on the strength of its research. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:30 | |
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The first Ivy League school to accept enrollment payment in crypto lands on the list for the first time at spot No. 25. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:30 | |
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The No. 24-ranked school offered the first blockchain course in China. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:30 | |
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Strong blockchain scholarship and active events elevate Australia's oldest university to the No. 21 spot. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:29 | |
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The No. 20-ranked school helped build a blockchain based Covid-19 digital passport. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:28 | |
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Host of the Fintech Olympiad for four years, the No. 17-ranked university is a proponent of blockchain technology uses in the Great Bay Area. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
2022-9-26 14:27 | |
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CoinDesk's 2020 university rankings rate institutions from scholarly impact to employment outcomes. Here is the full story of how we did it.
2020-10-7 23:57 | |
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An engineering student in Illinois has put together a handy map to help pinpoint locations where police are tapped into Ring’s surveillance network. Ring, a company best known for smart doorbells and home security cameras, has a massive network of these cameras installed, some of which are being used for surveillance purposes by police in certain cities.
2019-8-10 03:27 | |
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Researchers from the New York University School of Medicine recently developed a method for manipulating brain waves with light to improve learning. The results of the team’s study are incredible – laboratory mice exposed to the new technique showed marked improvement in short-term memory – but the implications of their findings could radically alter the scientific perception of how the brain works.
2019-8-10 22:04 | |
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A team of scientists recently conducted a first-of-its-kind experiment to study the effects of space radiation on a living brain. And the results don’t bode well for NASA‘s planned mission to Mars.
2019-8-8 21:39 | |
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A team of researchers in Canada and China are working on a revolutionary new way to track blood pressure: a selfie. The teams, based at the University of Toronto and the Affiliated Hospital of Hangzhou Normal University, just published a proof of concept that allows smartphone users to track blood pressure by taking a short video.
2019-8-7 03:14 | |
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During its developer conference in 2017, Facebook announced its plans to develop a brain-computer interface (BCI) that would let you type just by thinking. Now, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) working under this program have posted a study today noting their algorithm was able to detect spoken words from brain activity in real-time.
2019-7-31 09:57 | |
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The machine learning models that can detect our face and movements are now part of our daily lives with smartphone features like face unlocking and Animoji. However, those AI models can’t predict how we feel by looking at our face.
2019-7-30 15:44 | |
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Scientists from the University of California, San Diego, have created a new robotic soft contact lens that lets you zoom by blinking twice. The lens can be controlled by your eye movements. Eye movements like blinking carry change potential to signal.
2019-7-29 11:12 | |
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Researchers from Harvard University and MIT-IBM Watson Lab have created an AI-powered tool for spotting AI-generated text. Dubbed Giant Language Model Test Room (GLTR), the system aims to detect whether a specific piece of text was generated by a language model algorithm.
2019-7-29 11:00 | |
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This summer has proven a punishing reminder that climate change isn’t a far-off scenario, but one that’s happening right in front of our eyes. Unrelenting heat, though, doesn’t just affect humans.
2019-7-27 04:13 | |
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who look at monkeys and think “damn, having a tail would be fucking awesome,” and liars. While most of us just imagine though, others create. So, enter the Arque – a mechanical tail that allows humans to experience the benefits our extended-backbone brethren take for granted.
2019-7-25 16:16 | |
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Facebook’s digital currency Libra is looking less and less likely to launch next year as originally planned. Policy expert, Angela Walch from University College London’s Centre for Blockchain Technologies told Quartz: “The odds that Libra receives regulatory approval anytime soon (ie, in the next six-12 months) are quite low.
2019-7-25 15:44 | |
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European authorities are mulling over the idea of giving a second chance to young hackers instead of sending them straight to the clink – but only if they haven’t previously engaged in cybercrime.
2019-7-24 13:48 | |
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It turns out Google and Facebook are tracking your porn consumption habits big time, and even incognito mode can’t save you from their omnipotent gaze – or so say researchers from Microsoft, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Pennsylvania.
2019-7-19 15:38 | |
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Researchers from Boston University (BU) have discovered a flaw in the Bluetooth communication protocol that could expose most devices to third-party tracking and leak identifiable data. According to the research paper — Tracking Anonymized Bluetooth Devices — detailed by Johannes K.
2019-7-18 10:19 | |
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[NAIROBI] Esther Mwangi, a 2014 graduate of economics from Kenyatta University in Kenya who wanted to venture into entrepreneurship but had no clear path, started off selling solar panels in coastal parts of the country as she conducted market research on other possible ventures.
2019-7-10 17:27 | |
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A team of scientists from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method by which three people can play a Tetris-like multiplayer decision-making game together using only their minds.
2019-7-2 22:23 | |
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A team of scientists from Yokohama National University recently became the first researchers to teleport a photon into the vacuous space inside of a flaw within a diamond. In other words: physicists just invented quantum bling.
2019-6-29 01:45 | |
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Google’s Android is facing a tough battle against malware apps, and there seems no end in sight. According to new research, Google’s Play Store is riddled with thousands of possible malware-ridden counterfeit apps and games.
2019-6-24 10:22 | |
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A team of scientists recently determined certain quantum particles can regenerate after they’ve decayed. This has grand implications for the future of humanity, quantum computing, and intergalactic graffiti.
2019-6-18 22:44 | |
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A new research study has found that Venmo continues to make it easy for third-parties to scrape users’ public transaction history without their permission. Dan Salmon, a computer science student at Minnesota State University, has published a new data set of over seven million Venmo transactions on GitHub collected over a six month period.
2019-6-17 10:24 | |
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Alex Dwek, chief operating officer at Nas Company, joined CoinDesk TV’s “First Mover,” to discuss the education technology platform Nas Company and why an education in Web3 can help creators “make a living off the internet,” while creating “long term value.”
Students who perform well will get a leg up to apply for Circle internships and employment.
The $100,000 Thiel Fellowships garner big headlines for successes like Figma and Ethereum. But a deeper look shows a program that’s more about hype than reform. This article is part of CoinDesk's Education Week
Turns out crypto also may have disrupted the idea that where you went to school is a predictor of your future success. This story is part of CoinDesk's Education Week.
President Xi wants China to be the world’s leader in blockchain technology but has banned its most popular uses. Students and faculty wonder whether universities can successfully teach blockchain with Chinese characteristics, and if graduates can find jobs.
I developed CoinDesk’s Best Universities for Blockchain rankings in 2020, and have been tortured to some degree by them ever since.
Universities may teach blockchain but the crypto community will always welcome the self taught.