Alan Turing

Question 1

The Turing Award, the highest distinction in the field of computer science, is similar to which award in the sciences?

Accepted Answer

a Nobel Prize

Question 2

During World War II, Turing worked with the British code-breaking group based out of ___

Accepted Answer

Bletchley Park

Question 3

After the war, Turing contributed to the creation of which early and influential stored program computer?

Accepted Answer

the Manchester Mark 1

Question 4

Where and when was Alan Turing born?

Accepted Answer

in London in 1912

Question 5

Turing postulated that a computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive ___

Accepted Answer

a human into believing that it was human

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

Turing Complete

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

memory tape which stores symbols

Question 8

What is the method by which information is converted into secret code that hides the information's true meaning?

Accepted Answer

encryption

Question 9

Turing worked to figure out how to decrypt German communications, especially those that used ___

Accepted Answer

the Engima Machine

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

enough time and memory

Question 11

Which special-purpose electromechanical computer was used to help break Enigma codes?

Accepted Answer

the Bombe

Question 12

The method of determining whether or not a computer is capable of thinking like a human being is called ___

Accepted Answer

the Turing Test

Question 13

Turing's most famous post-war contribution was to the new field of ___

Accepted Answer

artificial intelligence

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

King's College in Cambridge

Question 15

The modern Turing test to tell computers and humans apart, is commonly abbreviated as ___

Accepted Answer

CAPTCHA

Question 16

It's most widely-accepted that Alan Turing took his own life by poison in 1954. How old was he?

Accepted Answer

41

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

unsolvable

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

Church-Turing Thesis

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

a Turing Machine

Question 20

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

Accepted Answer

the Decision Problem

Question 21

From 1936 through 1938, Turing completed a PhD at Princeton University under the guidance of ___

Accepted Answer

Alonzo Church

Question 22

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

Accepted Answer

Lambda Calculus

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