The pair will share the $1 million prize for their pioneering work in quantum cryptography and the broader field of quantum information science. Their 1984 paper ...

Had they included just one of Tony Hoare’s achievements, many scientific careers would be considered prestigious enough. His had a long list, unfortunately closed by his passing away at the age of 92 ...

The UK-Taiwan Innovative Industries Programme (I2P) has reached a record scale in 2026, involving 17 R&D teams participating in bilateral exchanges, including Foxconn, Turing Space, and NSYSU.

Machines have finally passed the Turing Test, the mid-century thought experiment designed to see if a computer could fool us into thinking it was human. In an evaluation last year, 73% of respondents ...

Two scientists just won computing's Nobel Prize for an idea from 1984: use quantum mechanics to make eavesdropping physically ...

A Canadian computer scientist is one of this year's recipients of a prestigious award nicknamed the Nobel Prize of computing.

Bennett and Brassard are widely recognised as founders of quantum information science, a field at the intersection of physics and computer science that treats quantum mechanical phenomena not merely ...

Bennett and Brassard are widely recognized as founders of quantum information science, a field at the intersection of physics and computer science that treats quantum mechanical phenomena not merely ...

It is hoped Charles H Bennett and Gilles Brassard's work will make digital communications secure for decades ahead.

Cryptography pioneers Charles Bennett (left) and Gilles Brassard introduced the BB84 protocol the uses the principles of ...

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard invented an encryption technology that could theoretically never be ...

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