IBM’s Charles H. Bennett earns ACM Turing award

Many trace the origins of quantum computing to a cool spring day in 1981 at MIT’s Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts. It was there that nearly 50 physicists and computer scientists gathered for the first meeting of the Physics of Computation Conference, where the renowned physicist Richard Feynman shared his radical vision for the future of computation. “He said that computers ought to be quantum because the world is quantum,” said Charles H. Bennett, an IBM Fellow and an attendee at the...