Turing College is the University of Kent's sixth

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. Named in honour of the mathematician and codebreaker

Alan Turing Alan Mathison Turing (; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical c ...

, the college's residential accommodations are divided into "Turing Houses" and "Turing Flats". The dining area, "Hut 8", is named after Turing's section at

Bletchley Park Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire) that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War. The mansion was constructed during the years following ...

. Turing College is unlike the other colleges at the University of Kent in the sense that it is strictly residential and has no academic facilities other than a study space above the dining area.

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