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Sir David John Cameron MacKay FRS FInstP FICE (22 April 1967 – 14 April 2016) was a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He was the Regius Professor of Engineering [12] in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge [13] and from 2009 to 2014 was Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Department of Energy and Climate ...
David MacKay is a professor of Natural Philosophy and a computer scientist who uses math to evaluate our renewable energy options. Watch his TED talk on why renewables are not enough and what we need to do to achieve sustainable energy.
25 Mei 2016 · Born in Stoke-on-Trent, David studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College, Cambridge and, after graduating in 1988, obtained his PhD in Bayesian methods for adaptive models at the California ...
David MacKay FRS is the Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge and then obtained his PhD in Computation and Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology.
David MacKay was a true polymath who made pioneering contributions to information theory, inference and learning algorithms. He was a founder of the modern approach to information theory, combining Bayesian inference with artificial neural network algorithms to allow rational decision making by computer.
Professor of Natural Philosophy, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge - Cited by 79,318 - Information Theory and Error-correcting Codes - Reliable Computation with Unreliable Hardware - Machine Learning and Bayesian Data Modelling - Sustainable Energy and Public Understanding of Science.
How much land mass would renewables need to power a nation like the UK? An entire country's worth. In this pragmatic talk, David MacKay tours the basic mathe...
