Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM AM Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol (Steven Levy/Wired)

Steven Levy / Wired : Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM AM Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol —  Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory.  Now they've been awarded the highest honor in computer science.