US EditionCanadian computer scientist Gilles Brassard co-recipient of A.M. Turing Award
Bennett and Brassard receive the $1 million ACM A.M. Turing Award for pioneering quantum cryptography and teleportation foundational to secure communication and quantum computing.
- On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery named physicist Charles H. Bennett and computer scientist Gilles Brassard co-recipients of the 2025 A.M. Turing Award, sharing a $1 million prize for pioneering quantum information science.
- Inspired by Stephen Wiesner's early concepts, Bennett and Brassard developed the BB84 protocol in 1984, establishing a method for secure communication guaranteed by the laws of physics; their 1993 research introduced quantum teleportation.
- Often called the "Nobel Prize of computing," the award honors their visionary insights that redefined secure communication, using photons to transmit information which immediately reveals eavesdropping attempts and counters quantum-powered code-breaking threats.
- The Google-supported ACM recognized the work as a "pathway toward securing digital communications in the decades ahead," providing critical defenses against "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks as quantum computing advances.
- Researchers pursue fault-tolerant quantum computers and long-distance networks, positioning quantum-resistant technologies as essential tools for infrastructure operators planning for the inevitable arrival of quantum threats to current encryption systems.
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Quantum pioneers Bennett and Brassard win Turing Award
The pair are considered originators in their field, which blends physics and computer science in treating quantum mechanical phenomena as resources for processing and transmitting information. Read more: Quantum pioneers Bennett and Brassard win Turing Award
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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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