[HN Gopher] The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of informati...
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       The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won a
       Turing Award
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 84 points
       Date   : 2026-03-22 11:53 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | AtlasBarfed wrote:
       | So the guy that came up with the idea and approach is the
       | secondary on the award?
        
         | smokel wrote:
         | No, there is one award each year, and this year it is shared
         | equally between two people: Charles Bennett and Gilles
         | Brassard. This happens more often, and it has even been shared
         | between _three_ people (in 2002, 2007 and 2018).
        
       | ashwinnair99 wrote:
       | Information theory gets credited to Shannon but the people who
       | made it actually work in practice rarely get this kind of
       | recognition. Long overdue.
        
         | fsckboy wrote:
         | this isn't about making quantum computing work in practice,
         | this work was still theoretical math
        
       | ZebusJesus wrote:
       | To think quantum computers at IBM in the 80's, its sad to think
       | companies like IBM and Bell Labs are not the same companies they
       | used to be, I mean the people working at those companies during
       | the 20th century changed the world. Im glad they got this award
       | as it is apparent they had a huge impact on security and quantum
       | computing in general.
        
         | wil421 wrote:
         | Serving Ads is more lucrative. I wonder what kind of stories we
         | will tell about how the social media companies exploited human
         | nature to make a buck.
        
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