An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking ...
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In 1994, the computer scientist Peter Shor discovered that if quantum computers were ever invented, they would decimate much of the infrastructure used to protect information shared online. That ...