Lov Grover

Lov Kumar Grover (born 1961) is an Indian-American computer scientist. He is the originator of the Grover database search algorithm used in quantum computing.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Grover's 1996 algorithm won renown as the second major algorithm proposed for quantum computing (after Shor's 1994 algorithm),<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and in 2017 was finally implemented in a scalable physical quantum system.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Grover's algorithm has been the subject of numerous popular science articles.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Life

Lov Kumar Grover was born in Meerut, India in 1961.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Grover received his bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1981<ref name="IITD">Template:Cite web</ref> and his PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1985.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> In 1984, he went to Bell Laboratories. He worked as a visiting professor at Cornell University from 1987 to 1994.<ref name="IITD" /> He retired in 2008, becoming an independent researcher.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Grover L.K.: A fast quantum mechanical algorithm for database search, Proceedings, 28th Annual ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing, (May 1996) p. 212
Grover L.K.: From Schrödinger's equation to quantum search algorithm, American Journal of Physics, 69(7): 769–777, 2001. Pedagogical review of the algorithm and its history.
Grover L.K.: Quantum Computing: How the weird logic of the subatomic world could make it possible for machines to calculate millions of times faster than they do today The Sciences, July/August 1999, pp. 24–30.
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