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Peter Shor

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American professor of applied mathematics at MIT

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1959 · age 67
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Peter Williston Shor is an American theoretical computer scientist 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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2022Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2019ACM Fellow
2018IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
2017ICTP Dirac Medal
2010Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
2002King Faisal International Prize in Science
1999Gödel Prize
1999Dickson Prize in Science
1998IMU Abacus Medal
1998O'Reilly Open Source Award
1998International Quantum Communication Award
MacArthur Fellows Program

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Peter Williston Shor is an American theoretical computer scientist 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. He has been a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2003.

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Born 1959 · age 67
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