A Quantum Leap for the Turing Award

Key summary
ACM A.M. Turing Award was awarded to Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard received the ACM A.M. Turing Award.
Bennett and Brassard meeting occurred in the summer of 1979 off the coast of Puerto Rico, bennett and Brassard met in the summer of 1979 off Puerto Rico.
BB84 was published by Bennett and Brassard as a quantum cryptography protocol, bennett and Brassard published a theory called BB84.
Bennett and Brassard developed quantum methods including quantum coin-tossing and quantum entanglement, bennett and Brassard developed methods such as quantum coin-tossing and quantum entanglement for information tasks.
Yannis Ioannidis said Bennett and Brassard fundamentally changed understanding of information, aCM president Yannis Ioannidis commented on their impact.



