Gilles Brassard, Université de Montréal, receives the A.M. Turing Award

The UdeM computer-science professor is named a co-recipient of the annual award, considered “the Nobel Prize in computing”.  

Université de Montréal computer science professor Gilles Brassard is the co-winner of the 2025 A.M. Turing Award, a $1-million U.S. prize given by the biggest computing organization in the world. Brassard is a co-recipient of the annual prize with Charles H. Bennett, a longtime colleague and physicist with IBM Research.

The Association for Computing Machinery said in its announcement that Brassard and Bennett are being recognized "for their essential role in establishing the foundations of quantum information science and transforming secure communication and computing."

Brassard is only the eighth Canadian to win the Turing Award since its inception in 1966. With Yoshua Bengio, who won the award in 2018 alongside two colleagues, the Université de Montréal now boasts two Turing Award laureates.