Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
IBM Fellow and quantum pioneer Charlie H. Bennett has been named a co‑recipient of the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award, alongside longtime collaborator Gilles Brassard of the Université de Montréal, marking the seventh IBM‑affiliated Turing Award recipient and the first recognized specifically for contributions to quantum science.
Bennett and Brassard are celebrated for groundbreaking work that helped ignite the quantum revolution and expand quantum information science as a field—reshaping how researchers think about computation, communication, and the nature of information.
Bennett’s pioneering contributions include:
Logical reversibility of computation (1973)
Quantum cryptography — including BB84, the world’s first quantum key distribution protocol (1984)
Quantum teleportation (1993)
Entanglement distillation (1996)
These breakthroughs laid the scientific foundations for many of the concepts that continue to drive progress in quantum computing today.
For more information on Bennett’s contribution to the field of quantum information theory, read the full blog here: research.ibm.com/blog/2025-turing-award
#quantum #quantumcomputing #quantumcryptography #quantumteleportation
IBM Fellow and quantum pioneer Charlie H. Bennett has been named a co‑recipient of the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award, alongside longtime collaborator Gilles Brassard of the Université de Montréal, marking the seventh IBM‑affiliated Turing Award recipient and the first recognized specifically for contributions to quantum science.
Bennett and Brassard are celebrated for groundbreaking work that helped ignite the quantum revolution and expand quantum information science as a field—reshaping how researchers think about computation, communication, and the nature of information.
Bennett’s pioneering contributions include:
Logical reversibility of computation (1973)
Quantum cryptography — including BB84, the world’s first quantum key distribution protocol (1984)
Quantum teleportation (1993)
Entanglement distillation (1996)
These breakthroughs laid the scientific foundations for many of the concepts that continue to drive progress in quantum computing today.
For more information on Bennett’s contribution to the field of quantum information theory, read the full blog here: research.ibm.com/blog/2025-turing-award
#quantum #quantumcomputing #quantumcryptography #quantumteleportation
