Peter Shor
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Peter Williston 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. Currently, he is a professor of applied mathematics at MIT, and he is affiliated with CSAIL and the Center for Theoretical...
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