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Computer Engineers

Profiles of the engineers who built the languages, systems and networks we rely on.

Gilles Brassard, BB84 and the 2025 Turing Award for quantum information

ACM has named Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett joint winners of the 2025 Turing Award. Their 1984 BB84 protocol put key distribution on physical, not computational, security. Its limits are still real.

18 Mar 2026 · 6 min read

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Jensen Huang's IEEE Medal of Honor: from graphics chips to AI factories

IEEE has named the Nvidia co-founder its 2026 Medal of Honor recipient. The citation covers GPUs and their use in scientific computing and AI. Here is the engineering behind it, and what is still unproven.

06 Jan 2026 · 5 min read