Seth Lloyd
Professor, Academic
1960 –
Who is Seth Lloyd?
Seth Lloyd is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic".
His research area is the interplay of information with complex systems, especially quantum systems. He has performed seminal work in the fields of quantum computation and quantum communication, including proposing the first technologically feasible design for a quantum computer, demonstrating the viability of quantum analog computation, proving quantum analogs of Shannon's noisy channel theorem, and designing novel methods for quantum error correction and noise reduction.
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- Born
- Aug 2, 1960
- Also known as
- Ллойд, Сет
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Harvard College
- Phillips Academy
- Rockefeller University
- Lived in
- United States of America
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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