Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist devised a way to keep secrets safe from hackers

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science.
Communications of the ACM

Turing Award Goes to Founders of Quantum Information Science

Gilles Brassard and Charles H. Bennett share the 2025 Turing Award for their pioneering work on quantum information science.
Nature

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 ...
Live Science

Giant string of organic molecules on Mars may be one of the best signs of life yet

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic molecules discovered on Mars. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...