Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems

Dr. Lloyd received a Ph.D. in Physics from Rockefeller University, under the supervision of Professor Heinz Pagels.

Dr. Lloyd was a postdoctoral fellow in the High Energy Physics Department at the California Institute of Technology, where he worked with Professor Murray Gell-Mann on applications of information to quantum-mechanical systems. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he worked at the Center for Nonlinear Systems on quantum computation. Since 1988, Dr. Lloyd has also been an adjunct faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute.

Dr. Lloyd is a principal investigator at the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He has performed seminal work in the fields of quantum computation and quantum communications, 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.

Professor Lloyd is a member of the American Physical Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

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Books Published by Seth Lloyd

Prof. Lloyd's Quantum Computer (March 2, 2008)

Prof. Seth Lloyd: Turning 'funky' quantum mysteries into computing realities (February 18, 2008)

Prof. Seth Lloyd, Black Holes featured in New Scientist (March 14, 2006)

Seth Lloyd in NY Times: Today's Vision of the Science of Tomorrow (January 6, 2003)