With their mother in declining health, Pauly claims Peter “took unfair advantage of his filial relationship with Mrs. Shore and her mental capacity to coerce Mrs. Shore into removing (Pauly ...

Peter Shor: My motivation was to see what you can do with a quantum computer. An earlier quantum algorithm worked by using periodicity—the tendency of some number sequences to regularly repeat.

MIT’s Peter Shor explains why he devised an algorithm for a quantum computer that could unravel our online data encryption. Internet security relies on the fact that our computers can’t break ...

MIT math professor Peter Shor shared in the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics with three other researchers, all of them “pioneers in the field of quantum information,” the prize ...

In 1994, Peter Shor, an American mathematician working at Bell Labs, published a paper with a wonky title and earth-shaking implications. In “Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization ...

Peter Shor didn’t set out to break the internet. But an algorithm he developed in the mid-1990s threatened to do just that. In a landmark paper, Shor showed how a hypothetical computer that exploited ...