Nationality American Role Professor of mathematics Alma mater Caltech
MIT | Known for Shor's algorithm Fields Computer Science Name Peter Shor | |
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Born August 14, 1959 (age 64)
New York City, New York, U.S. ( 1959-08-14 ) Institutions MIT
Bell Labs
UC Berkeley Notable awards Putnam Fellow (1978)
Nevanlinna Prize (1998)
MacArthur Fellowship (July 1999)
Godel Prize (1999)
King Faisal International Prize (2002) Education California Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Awards Nevanlinna Prize, Godel Prize, MacArthur Fellowship | ||
Residence United States of America Doctoral advisor F. Thomson Leighton | ||
Peter shor mit jan 2012 nasa qftc quantum algorithms
Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT. He is known for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer.
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- Peter shor mit jan 2012 nasa qftc quantum algorithms
- Peter shor quantum shannon theory
- Education
- Career
- Personal life
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Peter shor quantum shannon theory
Education
While attending Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, he placed third in the 1977 USA Mathematical Olympiad. After graduating that year, he won a silver medal at the International Math Olympiad in Yugoslavia (the U.S. team achieved the most points per country that year). He received his B.S. in Mathematics in 1981 for undergraduate work at Caltech, and was a Putnam Fellow in 1978. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from MIT in 1985. His doctoral advisor was F. Thomson Leighton, and his thesis was on probabilistic analysis of bin-packing algorithms.
Career
After graduating, he spent one year in a post-doctoral position at the University of California at Berkeley, and then accepted a position at Bell Laboratories. It was there he developed Shor's algorithm, for which he was awarded the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize at the 23rd International Congress of Mathematicians in 1998 and the Gödel Prize in 1999. In 2017 he received the Dirac Medal of the ICTP.
Shor began his MIT position in 2003. Currently the Henry Adams Morss and Henry Adams Morss, Jr. Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at MIT, he also is affiliated with CSAIL and the Center for Theoretical Physics (CTP).
He received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Caltech in 2007.
On October 1, 2011, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Personal life
He lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts.