Our standard account of artificial neural networks is a North Atlantic-based – and, overwhelmingly, North American – history. AI experienced a period of rapid development in the 1950s and 1960s.

The victory went viral and was hailed as a triumph for AI. Image caption, Watson is now used in medicine. It mines vast sets of data to find facts relevant to a patient’s history and makes ...

That makes Branwen an outlier from day one, in a field where the majority of professionals distinguish themselves by learning Python and Javascript.