Head of Content - ITNOW Magazine/@BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT. Journalist, interested in cyber security, retro computing, AI, ethics. I own a cat too.
"Here I am with a brain the size of a planet and they ask me to greet students. Call that job satisfaction? I don't." Visiting @cardiffuni and @CompScienceCU open day. #STEM
@computingchamps Interestingly though, Commodore's David Pleasance did package Amigas with educational software to persuade parents that the machines weren't just for gaming: https://t.co/bPTgdlIeuo ('You've got to market to people who pay the bills')
@computingchamps I remember a lab full of Commodore PETs. The BBC Micro model B... Amstrad PCW... Those were the main machines I recall. Moving on from the 8-bit era, my school - from what I remember - went Acorn Archimedes.
Very important AI news. DALL.E 2 draws an exclusive portrait of ChatGPT - 'What does ChatGPT look like?' Comfortingly, it doesn't look like a Cylon. It's more... What's the word?
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📆 #OnThisDay in 1905, Tommy Flowers was born.
Flowers led the team that built the COLOSSUS machine, the forerunner of the modern computer.
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