Sascha Brodsky

Brassard grew up in Montreal, obtained his doctorate in computer science from Cornell University in 1979, returned to the Canadian city, and has been at the Université de Montréal ever since, where he has held a full professorship since 1988 and a Canada Research Chair since 2001.
He is warm, slightly formal, fond of Bach and Mahler. He cooks. He goes to concerts in Amsterdam. The word he uses most often about his work is “fun.”
The idea for BB84 came from a paper. In 1976, while Brassard was st...

In the lobby of Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art, just past the entrance on West Fifty-Third Street, a large screen mounted on the wall glowed in shifting fields of green, pink and blue. Text appeared, in multiple fonts, with a cursor blinking between phrases. Some of the words were blocky and pixelated, like the readout of an old terminal; others were rendered in what appeared to be cursive handwriting, except that, on closer inspection, the loops and flourishes resolve into strings of ones and...

Artificial intelligence is spreading through the workplace in a steady climb rather than a sudden leap, according to new research from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Researchers say this is a shift that could make changes more visible to workers and businesses even as the technology improves rapidly.
The study, based on thousands of real-world job tasks, finds that AI capabilities are improving across a wide range of text-based work simultaneously, rather than arriv...