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seth lloyd in 2013 heinz pagels 210px american physicist massachusetts alamos national laboratory santa fe institute institute of technology california institute of technology los daniel s. abrams richard joseph nelson lin tian 02 august 1960 studying limits of computation '' programming the universe '' united states seth lloyd.jpg seth lloyd
 seth lloyd phillips , 1982 -rrb- cambridge university -lrb- m.phil , 1984 -rrb- academy rockefeller university -lrb- ph.d. , 1988 -rrb- -lrb- 1978 -rrb- harvard college -lrb- a.b.
seth lloyd

seth lloyd -lrb- born 1960 -rrb- 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 .
