Peter Shor
American professor
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Peter Williston Shor 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... Wikipedia
Born: 1959 (age 64 years), New York, NY
Awards: IMU Abacus Medal, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, Gödel Prize, and more
Academic advisor: Frank Thomson Leighton
Notable students: Alan Wing Leung and Mohsen Bahramgiri
Fields: Computer science, applied mathematics
Known for: Shor's algorithm; Shor code; CSS code; SMAWK algorithm; Stabilizer code; Quantum threshold theorem