This year's newly anointed Andreessen Horowitz Distinguished Visiting Professor of Computer Science is Dan Boneh,Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University as well as Co-director of the Stanford Computer Security Lab. In this episode of the a16z Podcast, we sit down with Boneh to chat about applied vs. theoretical math and computer science; what's lost and what's next with "usable" security (including various authentication approaches); and current and future trends in cryptography, or bitcoin,and more. Boneh also shares his thoughts on MOOCs as the "21st century version of the textbook". Oh, and on when quantum computing will finally happen... and why we should (and shouldn't!) freak out about it. Yet. MORE
Source: a16z.com