Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm James Menendez.
And coming up a little later, I've been speaking to one of the winners
of this year's Turing Award, considered the Nobel Prize for Computing.
He and a colleague have won for their work on quantum cryptography.
Is it true that you met swimming in the Caribbean Sea?
Is that right?
That is correct.
In San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Yes.
And was it his suggestion that you pursue your line of inquiry?
Is that right?
He came up to you and said, how about this?
And you went, yes.
That's correct.
He appeared out of nowhere as I was swimming, minding my own business.
And he started telling me about these crazy ideas that I'd never heard about.
And I was immediately seduced by how beautiful it was.
I'll be talking to Dr. Gilles Brassard in about 15 minutes.