Inspired by and in memory of the late Professor Sir David MacKay (1967-2016), the Department of Engineering hosted the one-day meeting of the Cambridge Philosophical Society to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of Professor Mackay.
Professor Sir David MacKay (1967-2016) made fundamental contributions to both public and theoretical understandings of energy and of information. He served as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Energy and Climate Change and was Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Cavendish Laboratory before being appointed as the inaugural Regius Professor of Engineering. He was a Fellow of Darwin College.
The meeting, dedicated to David's memory, considered both the urgent challenges of sustainable energy resources and the global opportunities arising from information technologies. It addressed the two main themes of his work: machine learning, information theory and Bayesian inference, together with sustainable energy.
Watch the day's proceedings here - https://www.youtube.com/live/unuuHyddufA?si=7e9oT0p8zA9Pwc_h