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BeauHD @ Slashdot 2 place · today 13:00 EDT

2026 Turing Award Goes To Inventors of Quantum Cryptography

Dave Knott shares a report from the New York Times: On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, said Drs. Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard had won this year's Turing Award for their work on quantum cryptography and related technologies. The Turing Award, which was introduced in 1966, is often called the Nobel Prize of computing, and it includes a $1 million prize, which the two scientists will share.

[...] The two met in 1979 while swim

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