Alan Turing: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Poster
Poster I made about British genius and World War II hero, Alan Turing. View poster.
The original source Photoshop file is available for download.
I’m releasing this poster and the source file under a Creative Commons “Attribution-Share Alike” 3.0 license, meaning you can copy it as much as you want, or make changes. (IANA graphic designer, and I spent more time on the wording and font choice than the visual look.)
UPDATE: Fixed those typos. “Heroes” and “further” always look like the wrong way to spell those words to me.
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Comments (18)
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Comment on February 9, 2010 @ 5:24 pm
I would like to see something else on the poster to the effect of:
“Turing’s lasting legacy can perhaps most easily be seen in the so-called “captcha” tests (more generally referred to as Turing Tests) commonly used on the Internet to prove you are human rather than a machine.”
This page uses a red icon as a Turing Test. Turing’s brilliance is all around. It is inexcusable that he didn’t get treated like a human…
I urge you to personally spread tolerance. Thanks.
Comment on February 9, 2010 @ 7:34 pm
Uh, Roger in Utah, I’m pretty sure his “lasting legacy” can be seen by looking at any computer. The digital computer — ALL digital computers — are Turing machines. The “Turing test” is a philosophical concept he came up with, but it’s more of a theoretical idea about the division between artificial and natural intelligence. By far the greater contribution is the creation of the digital computer AT ALL.
Comment on February 9, 2010 @ 7:58 pm
You spelled “further” incorrectly — it is not ‘furthur’.
Comment on February 9, 2010 @ 8:14 pm
Also spelled “heroes” as “heros”.
This is a good poster and design and a powerful idea. Let it meet its full potential; fix the spelling errors.
It’s usually the dumbass conservatives and right wingers that spell wrong… why not take the high road.
Peace.
Comment on February 9, 2010 @ 8:47 pm
hey i tried to fix the .psd but i don’t have your embedded fonts
Comment on February 9, 2010 @ 8:50 pm
I’m a computer scientist and fully appreciate Alan Turing’s contributions and I am sympathetic to your cause. However, this image slightly annoys me because this has nothing to do with don’t ask don’t tell. That has never been the British policy.
Comment on February 9, 2010 @ 10:03 pm
How do you spell heroes?
Comment on February 9, 2010 @ 10:46 pm
To Mike to Phoenix:
McCain was captured. Then he told the “enemy” all that he knew. Then he sat there for a few years until he was “rescued.” He wasn’t a hero then. Don’t expect him to be a hero now.
Comment on February 10, 2010 @ 12:47 am
Alan Turings most important WWII work was not Enigma, but the much more valuable “Lorentz” cipher, used exclusively for the german high-commands internal traffic.
The “Collossus” machine, was built to brute-force Lorentz, not Enigma.
Poul-Henning
Al’s edit: It is a frequent misconception that Turing played a role in the design of Colossus. In the poster, I am referring to Turing’s work designing the bombe machines that were used to crack Enigma messages. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Hut_8_and_Naval_Enigma
Comment on February 10, 2010 @ 12:51 am
Don’t you think it is a little odd that you are supporting don’t ask don’t tell AND calling yourselves tolerant?
The whole point of don’t ask don’t tell is so that we can be more accepting of homosexuals.
You should not be advocating don’t ask don’t tell; you should be asking yourself, “How stupid are we that we convicted a man of a crime for being attracted to men?”
Don’t you think if we were a little bit more humane, there would be no need for don’t ask don’t tell?
You act like, “Oh, well they caught him, so he deserved it. SO DON’T LET ANYONE KNOW YOU’RE GAY, OR YOU WILL BE A CRIMINAL. That is the message you are conveying here, that if you let people know you’re gay, you deserve to be punished. But if you keep it inside and live a lie, you can be free.
Land of the free my ass. Freedom is being able to be who you want, without preventing someone from being what they want.
Not many can do that in this country, and that’s fucked up.
Comment on February 12, 2010 @ 2:49 pm
Whoops, my bad. Second paragraph, “The whole point of don’t ask don’t tell is so that we can be more accepting of homosexuals.”
Insert between the words “of” and “don’t” the word, “repealing.”
It should read, “The whole point of REPEALING don’t ask don’t tell is so that we can be more accepting of homosexuals.”
Comment on February 12, 2010 @ 2:51 pm
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We love the poster. We want everyone to see it. We just recently wrote about our support of repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell but decided to post your great image today on our site. Everyone should know what horrible and shameful things happen because of ignorance and hate. Great job.
-Flora
Comment on February 17, 2010 @ 4:14 pm
I just wanted to write and say that this poster is amazing and moving.
Comment on February 20, 2010 @ 7:06 am
This was my Facebook.com page icon for a while. Well made and I like how you lend your knowledge for the support of equal rights.
Comment on March 20, 2010 @ 2:12 pm
Thank you so much for making this stunning poster and making it available freely. This is going up on my Facebook page and website immediately.
Comment on March 29, 2010 @ 6:46 am
Turing and Enigma ??? Woow! it’s a joke??? Woow, it’s suprise for me!!! Look at this webside:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Różycki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Zygalski
And try to remember this 3 very talented and famous polish people!: Rejewski, Różycki, Zygalski
Comment on June 7, 2010 @ 3:38 am