Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett won the 2025 Turing Award for founding quantum information science and developing BB84 quantum cryptography for secure communication.
Pair win Turing Award for computer encryption breakthrough
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard won the 2023 Turing Award for inventing quantum cryptography, a theoretically unbreakable encryption method that will secure future digital communications against quantum computer threats.
Founders of quantum information win top prize in computer science
Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett won the Turing Award for establishing quantum information science foundations and enabling secure quantum communication and computing.
