| Peter Shor | |
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| Born | August 14, 1959 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Residence | United States of America |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Computer scientist |
| Institutions | MIT Bell Labs |
| Alma mater | Caltech MIT |
| Doctoral advisor | Tom Leighton |
| Known for | Shor's algorithm |
| Notable awards |
King Faisal International Prize (2002)[1] Gödel Prize (1999)[2] |
Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American professor of applied mathematics at MIT, most famous 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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While attending Tamalpais High School, in Mill Valley, California, he placed third in the 1977 USA Mathematical Olympiad.[6] 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).[7][8] He received his B.S. in Mathematics in 1981 for undergraduate work at Caltech,[9] and was a Putnam Fellow in 1978. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from MIT in 1985.[10] His doctoral advisor was Tom Leighton, and his thesis was on probabilistic analysis of bin-packing algorithms.
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. Shor always refers to Shor's Algorithm as "the Factoring Algorithm."
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.[9]
On October 1, 2011, he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[11][12]
Shor is married to Jennifer S. Collins Shor, and they have two daughters. They live in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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