Turing Award Honors Bennett and Brassard for Quantum Information Science
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Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard Receive Turing Award for Founding Quantum Information Theory
📰 Original title: A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award
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Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, pioneers in quantum information theory, have been awarded the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the highest honor in computer science. Their collaboration began in 1979…
“Current #EncryptionTechnology relies on complex mathematical combinations, but many #scientists believe that the arrival of #QuantumComputers will make this insecure.
By contrast, #Bennett and #Brassard's theory - known as #BB84 - shows that any attempt to hack or copy their #quantum #encryption #key changes the very behaviour of its elements, making replication impossible.”
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Hey, just heard that Montreal's Gilles Brassard is co-winner of the #TuringAward for his 1970s work on launching the foundations of quantum computing.
It was an entertaining interview on BBC radio. Very Montréalais guy.
He was great in his reaction to "you and your American colleague should meet up to celebrate in Puerto Rico"
He was adamant that that's impossible as long as the little dictator is in power, he's not setting foot in that country.
He needs additional prizes.
"Bennett and Brassard have [...] been named the winners of the A.M. Turing Award, one of the highest honors in computing, for “their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing.” The award comes with a $1 million prize."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryptography-pioneers-win-turing-award-20260318/
Bennett, an American physicist at IBM Research, and Brassard, a Canadian computer scientist at the Université de Montréal, are widely recognized as founders of quantum information science, a field at the intersection of physics and computer science that treats quantum mechanical phenomena not merely as properties of matter, but as resources for processing and transmitting information. The ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize in Computing,” carries a $1 million prize with financial support provided by Google, Inc. The award is named for Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundations of computing.
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