News tidbits from here and there, or here/there, and/or there/here, as the case may be. Major Turing computing award goes to quantum science for first time - Nature March 18 " This is the first time that the Turing Award has recognized work related to quantum physics. Bennett and Brassard — partly through joint work — began to investigate the power of phenomena that could go beyond what’s possible with non-quantum, or ‘classical’, methods of information technology as far back as the 1970s." " In