Maria Korolov was awarded the Azbee National Gold Award by the American Association of Business Press Editors in May of 2025 for her Network World coverage of quantum computing.
Five articles were part of the award submission:
- Crypto flexibility key to preparing for quantum threat, experts say
- NIST finally settles on quantum-safe crypto standards
- Error-correction breakthroughs bring quantum computing a step closer
- Proof-of-concept quantum repeaters bring quantum networks a big step closer
- IBM, Microsoft and Boeing mark advances in quantum computing
She also received the regional gold award for this coverage.
In addition, she received the Azbee Regional Silver Award, with two of her articles about AI and VMware part of the award submission:
- With Project Cypress, VMware brings generative AI to cyberdefense
- Broadcom’s vision for VMware highlights private clouds, private AI
Read all her quantum networking and quantum computing coverage here.