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Peter Shor

Henry Adams Morss and Henry Adams Morss, Jr. (1934) Professor and Professor of Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics

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Information Theory Machine Learning Quantum Computing

Peter Shor is the Morss Professor of Applied Mathematics in MIT’s Department of Mathematics. Shor’s research interests are in theoretical computer science: currently on algorithms, quantum computing, computational geometry and combinatorics. Shor has numerous honors, including being a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the National Academy of Science and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He has also received a Gödel Prize, Micius Quantum Prize, and a King Faisal International Prize in Science. He earned a BA in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a PhD in applied mathematics from MIT.

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