ICT 5 history of the computer

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Who invented the concept of the programmable computer and designed one?

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Alan Turing

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Which of the following where numeric tables were constructed by hand using large numbers of human 'computers' (one who computes)?

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Difference Engine

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An engine that have been programmed using punch-cards and would have included features such as sequential control, loops, conditionals and branching.

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Analytical engine

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Who is widely recognized as the first programmer?

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Augusta Ada Byron King

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The inventor that developed lambda calculus, directly implemented by LISP and other functional programming languages.

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Alonzo Church

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Who showed the existence of an undecidable problem?

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Alan Turing

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Which has proven to be equivalent to a Turning Machine by Church and Turing working together?

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Lambda calculus

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The __________is a simpler version of Kurt Gödel's formal languages.

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Turing Machine

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Famous for his incompleteness theorem which implies that not all mathematical questions are computable (can be solved).

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Kurt Godel

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__________ Father of theoretical computer science.

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Alan Turing