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Major Turing computing award goes to quantum science for first time

Turing Award winners Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett pioneered ideas that are now foundational to quantum computers and quantum communications.
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  1. Davide Castelvecchi

Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett have been awarded the A. M. Turing Award “for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing”. The two will share the US$1-million prize, the Association for Computing Machinery in New York City announced on 18 March.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00818-z

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  1. Bennett, C. H. & Brassard, G. in Proc. Int. Conf. Comput. Syst. Signal Proc. 175–179 (1984).

  2. Bennett, C. H. et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 70, 1895 (1993).

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