Gilles Brassard is remembered in technology for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Gilles Brassard as Canadian computer scientist.
Gilles Brassard was born at Montreal in 1955. His recorded nationality is Canada. He was educated at Université de Montréal and Cornell University.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
The record gives his occupations as cryptographer and computer scientist.
His affiliations include Université de Montréal.
Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
His recorded fields of work are quantum information science and quantum cryptography.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Wolf Prize in Physics (2018).
Working from Canada shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Gilles Brassard is still at work, and the final assessment has not been made - the ordinary condition of a living career.
Achievements
- Wolf Prize in Physics — 2018
- Affiliated with Université de Montréal
- Educated at Université de Montréal, Cornell University and Cornell University College of Engineering
- Worked as cryptographer and computer scientist
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