“You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
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Peter Shor
Peter Williston Shor is an American theoretical computer scientist known for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the best currently-known algorithm running on a classical computer. He has been a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2003.
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science · American mathematician · mathematician · computer scientist · university teacher · also Peter Shor, Peter Williston Shor, Peter W. Shor, P. W. Shor, Shor
Born 14 August 1959 · Q370071
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Her light is growing faint, and if it goes out, that means she [Tinker Bell] is dead! Her voice is so low I can scarcely tell what she is saying. She says - she says she thinks she could get well again if children believed in fairies!
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2026· 5 entries
“Her light is growing faint, and if it goes out, that means she [Tinker Bell] is dead! Her voice is so low I can scarcely tell what she is saying. She says - she says she thinks she could get well again if children believed in fairies!”
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“I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
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“Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.”
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“I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.”
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2022).
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2021· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: Peter Shor, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences. (IMAGE)
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2020· 3 entries
Shor said that he considers post-quantum cryptography to be a solution to the quantum threat, although a lot of engineering effort is required to switch from vulnerable algorithms
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EurekAlert!: Bennett, Brassard and Shor win the Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences
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Was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering contributions to quantum computation
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2019· 2 entries
Awarded ACM Fellow (2019).
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"for contributions to quantum-computing, information theory, and randomized algorithms"
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2018).
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2017· 2 entries
Won ICTP Dirac Medal (2017).
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Received the Dirac Medal of the ICTP and for 2019 the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences
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2011· 1 entry
Was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (2010).
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Science (2002).
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1999· 2 entries
Awarded Gödel Prize (1999).
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Awarded Dickson Prize in Science (1999).
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1998· 3 entries
Awarded International Quantum Communication Award (1998).
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Won IMU Abacus Medal (1998).
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Awarded O'Reilly Open Source Award (1998).
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1959· 2 entries
Born 1959-08-14.
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In New York City, to Joan Bopp Shor and S
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