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Where and when was Alan Turing born?

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in London in 1912

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Turing's first brush with computer science came in 1935 while he was a masters student at ___

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King's College in Cambridge

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Turing set out to solve a problem posed by German mathematician David Hilbert known as ___

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the Decision Problem

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Alonzo Church, while solving the Decision Problem, developed a system of math expressions called ___

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Lambda Calculus

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Turing, while solving the Decision Problem, proposed a hypothetical computing machine, which we now call ___

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a Turing Machine

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A Turing Machine is a theoretical computing device equipped with an infinitely long ___

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memory tape which stores symbols

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Turing showed that his hypothetical machine can perform any computation if given ___

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enough time and memory

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Modern computing systems, that can be used to solve any computation problem, are said to be ___

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Turing Complete

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By implementing a theoretical model, Turing reasoned that the Halting Problem is ___

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unsolvable

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The concurrent efforts to determine the limits of computation are now called the ___

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Church-Turing Thesis