A month ago, the Cambridge community held a symposium in honor of David MacKay who left us this past week. They just released the videos:
- Brief Reminiscences I: Neil Lawrence, John Skilling, John Bridle, Graeme Mitchison
- Brief Reminiscences II: Hanna Wallach, Robert MacKay, Chris Williams, Carl Rasmussen
Here is the full set of videos:
Information, Inference, and Energy
A symposium to celebrate the work of Professor Sir David MacKay FRS
Links and downloads
Monday 14th
| Andy Hopper | Welcome address |
| Zoubin Ghahramani | Introduction |
| David Spiegelhalter | Risk in whole numbers |
| Tom Counsell | Global Calculator |
| Amin Shokrollahi | Choral codes |
| Jossy Sayir | Storing data on DNA |
| Brief reminiscences I | |
| Christian Steinruecken | Inverse calculators |
| Mark Lynas | Science and Society |
| Brendan Frey | Deep learning in medicine |
| Brief reminiscences II | |
| Oliver Stegle | Disentangling cell diversity |
| Richard Durbin | Analysis of genome data |
Tuesday 15th
| John Hopfield | Emergent dynamics |
| Carlos Brody | Decision-making in rats |
| Andreas Herz | Activity of grid cells |
| Per Ola Kristensson | Next-generation text entry |
| Brief reminiscences III | |
| Alan Blackwell | Dasher videos |
| John Winn | Democratising data |
| Iain Murray | Slice sampling |
| Geoff Hinton | Sensory cortex |
| David MacKay | Surprise lecture |
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