Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard Win 2025 ACM Turing Award for Quantum Information Science Foundations
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Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard have been awarded the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their foundational work in establishing quantum information science. The award recognizes their essential role in transforming secure communication and computing by treating quantum mechanical phenomena as resources for information processing. Bennett is an American physicist at IBM Research, and Brassard is a Canadian computer scientist at the Université de Montréal. The Turing Award, often called the 'Nobel Prize in Computing,' includes a $1 million prize supported by Google.
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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.
Bennett and Brassard 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 award is named for Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundations of computing.
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 t
