Professor
Peter Williston Shor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematician; Computer scientist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Computer Sciences
Elected
2011
Seminal contributions to theoretical computer science. In particular the Shor algorithm revolutionized the theory of quantum computation by showing that quantum computers could perform integer factorization in polynomial time, i.e., exponentially faster than the best known classical factoring algorithms.
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