The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won a Turing Award

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• ashwinnair99 2 hours ago
  Information theory gets credited to Shannon but the people who made it actually work in practice rarely get this kind of recognition. Long overdue.
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  • fsckboy 54 minutes ago
    this isn't about making quantum computing work in practice, this work was still theoretical math
• AtlasBarfed 3 hours ago
  So the guy that came up with the idea and approach is the secondary on the award?
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  • smokel 2 hours ago
    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).
• varispeed 20 minutes ago
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