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Gilles Brassard and Charles H. Bennett share the 2025 Turing Award for their pioneering work on quantum information science.

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An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

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