Computing pioneer Tommy Flowers was brought back to life as an AI avatar
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When Future 50 company Orbital Global joined with BT to stage its inaugural AI Festival, speakers from Facebook, Google, NASA, AstraZenica and more were joined by the man to whom many of them arguably owed their careers: Tommy Flowers.
Except, of course, the Bletchley Park genius who designed and built Colossus – the world’s first programmable electronic computer – to crack the German Enigma codes in World War Two had actually passed away in 1998.
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When Future 50 company Orbital Global joined with BT to stage its inaugural AI Festival, speakers from Facebook, Google, NASA, AstraZenica and more were joined by computing legend Tommy Flowers - who passed away in 1998.