may 31, 1936 - Invention of the Turing Machine by Alan Turing
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- First proposal of the concept of a "universal computer" that could solve any problem using encoded instructions
- Invention of the Turing machine computational model introduced the concept of "Turing completeness," a test used in computer science to judge a computer's computability based on it's ability to simulate a Turing machine
- Provided field of computer science with a simple mathematical computer model to base proofs and theories on, accelerating new studies in computer science and mathematics
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