Turing
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Turing may refer to:
- Alan Turing, a British computer scientist.
- Turing programming language
- Turing (cipher), a stream cipher.
- Turing machine and Turing completeness, an abstract model of computer execution and storage.
- Turing test, a proposal for a test of a machine's capability to perform human-like conversation.
- Reverse Turing test, a test to keep out computers and allow humans to perform functions
- Turing Award, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of computing".
- The Turing Police, a special police agency in William Ford Gibson's Sprawl trilogy.
- Church-Turing thesis.
- TURing, a trade mark of Swivel Secure Limited to denote their proprietary TURing interface, a user identification protocol that is resistant to automated attacks.
- Turing (novel) a novel by Christos Papadimitrou, published in 2003.