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Gilles Brassard

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Gilles Brassard is a Canadian computer scientist. He is a faculty member of the Universite de Montreal, where he has been a Full Professor since 1988 and Canada Research Chair since 2001, and he shared the 2025 Turing Award with Charles H. Bennett for their work in quantum information science. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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1955 1
Birth Date
1955-04-20 1
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    Gilles Brassard (born April 20, 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist. He is faculty member of the Université de Montréal, where he has been a Full Professor since 1988 and Canada Research Chair since 2001. He shared the 2025 Turing Award with Charles H. Bennett for their work in quantum information science.
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    April 20, 1955
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