US EditionCanadian computer scientist Gilles Brassard co-recipient of A.M. Turing Award
Bennett and Brassard received the $1 million ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering quantum key distribution and teleportation, foundational to secure communication against quantum computing threats.
- ACM announced on March 18, 2026, Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard as co-recipients of the 2025 A.M. Turing Award, which carries a $1 million prize and is called computing's 'Nobel Prize'.
- Honored for decades of foundational research, Brassard and Bennett pioneered quantum information science with the BB84 protocol and introduced quantum teleportation and entanglement distillation.
- At a 1979 Puerto Rico conference, Bennett and Brassard first met and by October 1989 ran the first BB84 demonstration using a makeshift apparatus with mirrors, polarizers, and photon detectors.
- Supporters including Jeff Dean noted 'Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard's visionary insights laid the groundwork for one of the most exciting frontiers in science and technology', highlighting their impact on secure communications and quantum networks.
- Looking ahead, their research underpins efforts on quantum networks and satellite quantum links over more than 1,000 kilometers as governments reassess cryptographic resilience amid Q day and fault-tolerant quantum computers.
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Turing Award goes to inventors of ‘quantum cryptography’
Computing’s prestigious Turing Award went to two men who created a way of keeping digital communication safe even in the age of quantum computers. Modern encryption relies on computers’ inability to unpick calculations involving enormous prime numbers, but quantum computers will sidestep that problem. “Quantum cryptography,” proposed by Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard in the 1980s, relies on a quirk of subatomic physics: That observing a par…
Professor Gilles Brassard is awarded the Turing Prize for his work on quantum cryptography, including a protocol to secure messages.
Canadian computer scientist Gilles Brassard co-recipient of A.M. Turing Award
A Canadian computer scientist is one of this year’s recipients of a prestigious award nicknamed the Nobel Prize of computing. Université de Montréal professor Gilles Brassard has won the A.M. Turing Prize with IBM Research scientist Charles H. Bennett. The men nabbed the award because they created impenetrable encryption technology in the mid-1980s that laid […]
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