# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gilles-brassard
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:34:07.674Z

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name: "Gilles Brassard"
slug: "gilles-brassard"
description: "Gilles Brassard 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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birthDate: "1955-04-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump