David MacKay
Also known as David J. C. MacKay, Sir David MacKay
Cambridge physicist; wrote Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air (1967–2016).
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- Sir David MacKay was a British physicist and mathematician, Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.
- From 2009 to 2014 he was Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change.
- His work on information theory and machine learning included Bayesian neural networks and the rediscovery, with Radford Neal, of low-density parity-check codes.
- He wrote Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms (2003) and Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air (2008), both free online.
- He died in 2016.
Key facts
- Born
- April 22, 19671
- Died
- April 14, 20161
- Cambridge
- Regius Professor of Engineering, appointed 20131
- DECC
- Chief Scientific Advisor, from 2009 to 20141
- Education
- BA, Trinity College, Cambridge (1988); PhD, Caltech (1992)1
- Built
- Dasher, a text-entry program1
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