An accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and other topics for the general reader.
ABOUT MARK
Mark Stuart Day is Chief Scientist at Netskope. He was previously Chief Scientist at Riverbed Technology for a decade before spending six years as Visiting Lecturer at MIT. With more than thirty patented inventions, he has also made technical contributions at Dropbox, IBM, Cisco, Digital, and BBN.
ABOUT BITS TO BITCOIN
Most of us feel at home in front of a computer; we own smartphones, tablets, and laptops; we look things up online and check social media to see what our friends are doing. But we may be a bit fuzzy about how any of this really works.
In Bits to Bitcoin, Mark Stuart Day offers an accessible guide to our digital infrastructure, explaining the basics of operating systems, networks, security, and related topics for the general reader. He takes the reader from a single process to multiple processes that interact with each other; he explores processes that fail and processes that overcome failures; and he examines processes that attack each other or defend themselves against attacks.
LATEST BLOG POST
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NEWS & EVENTS
Bits to Bitcoin: How Our Digital Stuff Works was published August 2018 by The MIT Press.
You can see a video of Mark's book talk at Google.
You can see video of Mark discussing the book on "It's All Write with Suzette."
