David J. C. MacKay

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gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkb:University_of_Oxford
gptkbp:awards gptkb:C._V._Raman_Prize
IEEE Fellow
Royal_Society_Fellow
Cavendish_Professor_of_Physics
gptkbp:birthDate 1967-04-02
gptkbp:child gptkb:Thomas_MacKay
Martha_MacKay
gptkbp:children 2
gptkbp:deathDate 2016-04-15
gptkbp:field artificial intelligence
machine learning
statistics
information theory
statistical inference
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label David J. C. MacKay
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Geoffrey_Hinton
gptkb:Yoshua_Bengio
gptkb:Jürgen_Schmidhuber
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Thomas_Bayes
gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:Claude_Shannon
gptkb:David_J.C._MacKay
gptkbp:knownFor machine learning
information theory
machine learning algorithms
data compression
Bayesian methods
error-correcting codes
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Information_Theory,_Inference,_and_Learning_Algorithms
Bayesian Methods for Hackers
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:physicist
author
engineer
computer scientist
gptkbp:previousName David_K._C._MacKay
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Cambridge,_England
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Catherine_MacKay
gptkb:Sophie_MacKay
gptkbp:website http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/