Technology & Science
ACM Names Bennett & Brassard 2025 Turing Award Laureates for Inventing Quantum Cryptography
On 18 March 2026 the Association for Computing Machinery announced that Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard will receive the 2025 A.M. Turing Award and its US$1 million prize for their 1984 creation of the BB84 quantum-key-distribution protocol, formally recognizing quantum information science inside computing’s highest honor.