Seth Lloyd

Seth Lloyd
Seth Lloyd in 2013
Born	(1960-08-02) August 2, 1960 (age 63)
Nationality	American
Education	Phillips Academy (1978) Harvard College (A.B., 1982) Cambridge University (M.Phil, 1984) Rockefeller University (Ph.D. physics, 1988)
Known for	Studying limits of computation Programming the Universe Coherent information Continuous-variable quantum information Dynamical decoupling Effective complexity Quantum capacity Quantum illumination Quantum mechanics of time travel Quantum algorithm for linear systems of equations
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology California Institute of Technology Los Alamos National Laboratory Santa Fe Institute
Doctoral advisor	Heinz Pagels

Seth Lloyd (born August 2, 1960) is a professor of mechanical engineering and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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, quantum communication and quantum biology, 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.^[1]