Congrats to Bennett and Brassard on the Turing Award!

I’m on a spring break vacation-plus-lecture-tour with Dana and the kids in Mexico City this week, and wasn’t planning to blog, but I see that I need to make an exception. Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard have won the Turing Award, for their seminal contributions to quantum computing and information including the BB84 quantum key distribution scheme. This is the first-ever Turing Award specifically for quantum stuff (though previous Turing Award winners, including Andy Yao, Leslie Valiant,...