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David J.C. MacKay FRS

Professor of Natural Philosophy
Department of Physics
Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Recent news

14-Oct-2009 Dasher is now available for the iPhone!
From October 1st I will be working 4 days per week as Chief Scientific Advisor to the Department of Energy and Climate Change
I wrote an article for New York Times / International Herald Tribune - August 28, 2009 - Illuminating the Future of Energy, accompanied by a diagram, Making room for renewables. - My local copy of this article is accompanied by several alternative versions of the graphic.
On July 2nd 2009 I gave a talk for CityForum describing a possible road-map for UK energy to 2050. There is a paper ("Plan C", pdf) and a small set of slides (html)
For an overview of recent research activity in the research group, see our new videos page.
How does work work? [html slides] (talk for Theoretical Chemistry group, Cambridge)
More links

The book Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air is available free online from withouthotair.com. Published December 2008 by UIT, the book is available from all good booksellers.
Thanks to William Sigmund, the whole energy book can be browsed as html

My Information theory text book Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms was published in September 2003. It is available free online.

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