ACM A.M. Turing Award

2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award

The Nobel Prize of computing

Announced on March 18, 2026, the 2025 Turing Award went to Charles H. Bennett of IBM Research and Gilles Brassard of the Université de Montréal, the inventors of quantum cryptography. Their 1984 BB84 protocol lets two parties share a secret key whose security is guaranteed by physics. They also helped invent quantum teleportation in 1993.