ALAN TURING: CRACKING THE ‘ENIGMA’ CODE

What was Alan Turing most famous for during World War II?

• Developing the first computer

• Breaking the German enigma code

• Writing a biography of Gödel

• Creating the Turing Test

What theorem did Turing work to clarify and simplify?

• Pythagorean theorem

• Fermat's Last Theorem

• Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem

• Gödel's incompleteness theorem

What theoretical device did Turing invent?

• Turing machine

• Quantum computer

• Neural network

• Analytical engine

What is the 'halting problem' associated with?

• The design of algorithms

• The efficiency of Turing machines

• The inability to solve certain problems

• The speed of computation

What was the name of the early computer Turing worked on?

• Colossus

• ACE

• IBM 701

• ENIAC

What experiment did Turing propose to define machine intelligence?

• The Turing Test

• The Algorithmic Challenge

• The Intelligence Quotient Test

• The Machine Learning Test

What was Turing's personal philosophy regarding honesty?

• To compromise for acceptance

• To avoid all forms of deceit

• To be free from hypocrisy

• To embrace hypocrisy

What happened to Turing in 1952?

• He won a Nobel Prize

• He published a groundbreaking paper

• He became a professor at Cambridge

• He was arrested for homosexuality

What was the consequence of Turing's arrest?

• He fled to another country

• He was celebrated as a hero

• He was chemically castrated

• He was imprisoned for life

What did Turing dream computers would one day be capable of?

• Being faster than humans

• Playing chess exclusively

• Learning, thinking, and communicating

• Performing complex calculations only