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Oracle Machine Concept

Great Britain · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1938

Alan Mathison Turing1938

Princeton University · Science / Technology

Develops the idea of machines that can consult an external oracle when studying relative computability and unsolvable problems.

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Alan Mathison Turing

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