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After his epochal paper in 1936 on Turing machines, Turing wrote a Ph.D. dissertation with Alonzo Church which was published in 1939. A tiny part of this paper in section 4 contained the germ of one of the most important ideas in all of modern computability theory. In half a page Turing suggested augmenting his formera-machines by adding some kind of “oracle” which could supply the answers to specific questions during the computation.
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Soare, R.I. (2016). Turing Reducibility. In: Turing Computability. Theory and Applications of Computability. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31933-4_3
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