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Peter W. Shor (born August 14 , 1959 ) is an American theoretical Computer Scientist most famous for his work on Quantum Computation , in particular for devising a quantum algorithm for Factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer (see Shor's Algorithm ). He was working then at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1994 . He was the recipient of the Nevanlinna Prize in 1998 , a MacArthur Fellowship in 1999 , and a Gödel Prize in 1999 among other prizes. Currently, he is a professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT , and he is affiliated with CSAIL and the Center for Theoretical Physics (CTP) . He received his B.S. in Mathematics in 1981 for undergraduate work at Caltech , and was a Putnam Fellow in 1978 . He then earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from MIT in 1985 . 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 Berkeley , and then accepted a position at Bell Laboratories. Shor began his current MIT position in 2003 . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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