An MIT professor who studies quantum computing is sharing a $3 million Breakthrough Prize. MIT math professor Peter Shor shared in the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with three other ...

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 and ...

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The most recent email you sent was likely encrypted using a tried-and-true method that relies on the idea that even the fastest computer would be unable to efficiently break a gigantic ...

As billions of dollars pour into quantum computing and countries build communication networks secured by quantum encryption, the prominence of quantum information science has become increasingly hard ...

On one side quantum computers so powerful they can defeat the world’s cybersecurity systems. On the other, new algorithms that can resist the onslaught… In the 1990s, two researchers Peter Shor and ...

A math theory powering computer image compression, an "invisibility cloak" or the science behind the James Webb Space Telescope are some achievements that could be honored when the Nobel physics prize ...