David J. C. MacKay (born April 22, 1967) is the professor of natural philosophy in the department of Physics at the University of Cambridge. Events 1500 - Portuguese Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies For the current in the 19th century German idealism see Naturphilosophie Natural philosophy or the philosophy of nature (from Physics (Greek Physis - φύσις in everyday terms is the Science of Matter and its motion. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the
He was born the fifth child of Donald MacCrimmon MacKay and Valerie MacKay. He was educated at Newcastle High School (later Newcastle-under-Lyme School) and represented Britain in the International Physics Olympiad in Yugoslavia in 1985, receiving the first prize for experimental work. MacKay went up to Trinity College, Cambridge and received a BA in Natural Sciences (Experimental and Theoretical Physics) in 1988. He went to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) as a Fulbright Scholar. The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, Coeducational research university located in Pasadena The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of grants for international educational exchange for scholars educators graduate His supervisor in the graduate programme in Computation and Neural Systems was John Joseph Hopfield. John Joseph Hopfield (b July 15, 1933) is an American scientist most widely known for his invention of an associative Neural network He was awarded a PhD in 1992.
In January 1992 MacKay was made the Royal Society Smithson Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, continuing his cross-disciplinary research in the Cavendish Laboratory, the Department of Physics of the University of Cambridge. The Cavendish Laboratory is the University of Cambridge 's Department of Physics, and is part of the university's School of Physical Sciences In 1995 he was made a University Lecturer in the Cavendish Laboratory. He was promoted in 1999 to a Readership and in 2003 to a Professorship in Natural Philosophy.
MacKay's contributions in machine learning and information theory include the development of Bayesian methods for neural networks, the rediscovery (with Radford M. Machine learning is a subfield of Artificial intelligence that is concerned with the design and development of Algorithms and techniques that allow computers to "learn" Information theory is a branch of Applied mathematics and Electrical engineering involving the quantification of Information. Bayesian inference is Statistical inference in which evidence or observations are used to update or to newly infer the Probability that a hypothesis may be true Traditionally the term neural network had been used to refer to a network or circuit of biological neurons. Neal) of low-density parity-check codes, and the invention of Dasher, a software application for communication especially popular with disabled people. In Information theory, a low-density parity-check code (LDPC code is an Error correcting code, a method of transmitting a message over a noisy transmission Dasher is a Computer accessibility tool which enables users to write without using a keyboard, by entering text on a screen using a Pointing device
His interests beyond research include the development of effective teaching methods and African development; he taught regularly at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cape Town from its foundation in 2003 to 2006. The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences ( AIMS) is an educational institute in Muizenberg, South Africa, established in 2003. Cape Town (Kaapstad Xhosa: Ikapa) is the second most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the metropolitan municipality of the He is writing a book on climate change and energy use in Britain called Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air.
MacKay has an Erdős number of 2. The Erdős number (ɛrdøːʃ honoring the late Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, is a way of describing the "collaborative distance" between a person
Books
- MacKay, David J. C. (September 2003). Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP is a Publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534 ISBN 0-521-64298-1.
External links
Sustainable Energy - Without Hot Air[1]
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