Professor Seth Lloyd is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1982, the Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (Part III) and an M. Phil. in Philosophy of Scie...
Professor Seth Lloyd is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1982, the Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (Part III) and an M. Phil. in Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University in 1983 and 1984 under a Marshall Fellowship, and a Ph.D. in Physics in 1988 from Rockefeller University under the supervision of Professor Heinz Pagels.
Since 1988, Professor Lloyd has also been an adjunct faculty member at the Sante Fe Institute. In 1994, he joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Professor Lloyd has performed seminal work in the fields of quantum computation and quantum communications. Professor Lloyd is a member of the American Physical Society and the Amercian Society of Mechanical Engineers.