David MacKay

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gptkbp:instanceOf Person
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Cambridge
gptkb:University_of_Edinburgh
gptkb:University_of_Oxford
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Institute_of_Electrical_and_Electronics_Engineers_Fellow
gptkb:Institute_of_Physics_Prize
Royal_Society_Fellow
gptkbp:birthDate 1967-04-22
gptkbp:children 2
gptkbp:deathDate 2016-04-14
gptkbp:field Machine Learning
Statistics
Information Theory
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label David MacKay
gptkbp:influenced Many researchers in machine learning.
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Richard_Feynman
gptkb:David_Deutsch
gptkbp:knownFor Contributions to machine learning and information theory.
Contributions to renewable energy and sustainability
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableWork Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air
gptkbp:occupation Author
Physicist
gptkbp:placeOfBirth gptkb:Bristol,_England
gptkbp:placeOfDeath gptkb:Cambridge,_England
gptkbp:previousName David_John_MacKay
gptkbp:researchInterest Data compression
Neural networks
Statistical inference
Bayesian methods
Machine learning applications in energy.
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Cambridge,_England
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Rebecca_MacKay
gptkbp:website http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/