Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard have won the 2025 ACM AM Turing Award for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing.
Bennett, an American physicist at IBM Research, and Brassard, a Canadian computer scientist at the Université de Montréal, have collaborated over four decades incorporating quantum principles into computational models. Their work has influenced cryptography, algorithm design, computational complexity, learning theory, interactive proofs and mathematical physics, while their research helped catalyse a generation of physicists and computer scientists to work across disciplinary boundaries.
The ACM AM Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize in Computing,” carries a $1 million prize with financial support provided by Google, Inc. The award is named for Alan M Turing, the British mathematician who articulated the mathematical foundations of computing.