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Peter Shor
Affiliation:
Mathematics, CSAIL
Personal Website:
http://www-math.mit.edu/~shor/
Awards:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Fellow (2011)
California Institute of Technology: Distinguished Alumni Award (2007)
INFORMS: Computing Society Prize for best paper (2007)
National Academy of Sciences: Member (2005)
King Faisal Foundation: International Prize in Science (2002)
International Symposium on Information Theory: Plenary Talk (2000)
MacArthur Foundation: MacArthur Fellows Program (1999)
CMU: Dickson Prize in Science (1999)
Gödel: Gödel Prize in Theoretical Computer Science (1999)
The International Mathematical Union: Rolf Nevanlinna Prize (1998)
QCMC: International Quantum Communications Award (1998)
Biography:
My interests are currently algorithms, quantum computing, computational geometry and combinatorics.
Research Group:
Algorithms
Quantum Information Science