Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they’ve been awarded the highest honor in computer science. Those water-logged scientists, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...

Alan Turing is known for his scientific achievements, but openness in his personal life caused his public downfall.

Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett have been awarded the A. M. Turing Award “for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure ...

This bizarre mechanical computer has no wires or chips. It has no wires, no silicon chips, and needs zero electricity. Yet, ...

Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 ...

Université de Montréal professor honoured alongside US physicist Charles H. Bennett. A Québec computer scientist has received the computing field’s highest honour for research that helped lay the ...

Meta AI veteran Yann LeCun raises $1 billion for AMI, betting on world models to rival today’s text-based AI systems.

Diffie-Hellman’s key-exchange method runs this kind of exponentiation protocol, with all the operations conducted in this way ...

This Women’s History Month, we look at how women’s innovations have advanced the field of computer programming.View on ...