What was a phenomenon that was for the most part less influential than the invention of the Turing Machine? Given the previous question, write a context that contains the answer. It can be 1 - 20 sentences. Context:
Before the actual research explicitly devoted to the complexity of algorithmic problems started off, numerous foundations were laid out by various researchers. Most influential among these was the definition of Turing machines by Alan Turing in 1936, which turned out to be a very robust and flexible simplification of a computer.