David MacKay
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Environment and Energy 
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Information Theory 
·Textbook 
·Gallager codes & MN codes 
·Theory of Sparse Graph codes 
·Regular Gallager codes 
·Irregular Gallager codes 
·Turbo codes  
·Insertions and deletions 
·Quantum Codes 
·Cryptanalysis and Coding 
·Discussion documents 
·More Message-Passing 
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Probabilistic Data Modelling 
·PhD thesis 
·Bayes for neural networks 
·ICA & Latent Variable Models 
·Bayes FAQ 
·Bayesian computations 
·Monte Carlo methods 
·Variational methods 
·Gaussian processes 
·Language, Proteins, Density nets 
·Images, Radar, Neuroscience 
·Materials science 
·Decision theory, Fair Elections 
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Human-computer Interfaces 
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Computational Neuroscience 
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Evolution and Molecular Biology  
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Miscellaneous work « 
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Errata 
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Software and Files 
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Recommendations 
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Manuals

A Short LaTeX tutorial

Early work

A Method of Increasing the Contextual Input to Adaptive Pattern Recognition Systems, Technical Report RIPR 1000/14/87, Research Initiative in Pattern Recognition, Royal Signals and Radar Establishment, Malvern, Worcester. WR14 3PS
(My first paper on neural networks.)
DJVU files: Readable, but poor quality (130K) high-resolution version (2M) zip file containing huge tif images
connectionsM.ps.gz | PDF | |DJVU |
My first paper on statistics and neural networks,
Maximum Entropy Connections: Neural Networks,
was published in Maximum Entropy and Bayesian Methods, Laramie, 1990, pages 237-244.
I don't have the original postscript, but I have slapped together the above postscript document (which includes an unnecessary 7 page bibliography) to preserve the contents of the paper on line.

Mathematical recreations

A collection of puzzles for Darwin College magazine.
And a few more puzzles including physics and probability ideas.
rectangles.ps.gz. rectangles.pdf. html. abstract. | <- UK | Canada -> | rectangles.ps.gz. rectangles.pdf. html. abstract.
`Simple Proofs of a Rectangle Tiling Theorem'. (2003)
[Also, a one-page introduction to this problem is here: (pdf) (postscript)]
corner.ps.gz. corner.pdf. abstract. | <- UK | Canada -> | corner.ps.gz. corner.pdf. abstract.
` Big Things that Squeeze Round Corners '.
conway.ps.gz. conway.pdf. abstract. | <- UK | Canada -> | conway.ps.gz. conway.pdf. abstract.
I edited a 15-page book chapter, `The Power of Mathematics', by John Conway. (Another site with a lecture by Conway)

Other Fun stuff

Codes
A note about the iTap / T9 text-to-numbers code
Games
Bao: An illustration of what research in theoretical physics is like

Bayesian methods, quickies

`The pope is (probably) not an alien' | <- UK | Canada -> | html
With Sean Eddy
euro.ps.gz. euro.pdf. | euro.DJVU. abstract. | <- UK | Canada -> | euro.ps.gz. euro.pdf. | euro.DJVU. abstract.
Belgian euro coins: 140 heads in 250 tosses -- suspicious?

Teaching methods

exams.ps.gz. exams.pdf. abstract. | <- UK | Canada -> | exams.ps.gz. exams.pdf. abstract.
` Everyone Should Get an A '.
Number theory (not a highly recommended paper!)
sumsquares.ps.gz. sumsquares.pdf. | sumsquares.DJVU. abstract. | <- UK | Canada -> | sumsquares.ps.gz. sumsquares.pdf. | sumsquares.DJVU. abstract.
` Numbers that are Sums of Squares in Several Ways '.
by David MacKay and Sanjoy Mahajan
(Not a highly recommended paper as it was written with no knowledge of number theory)

The Inference Group is supported by the Gatsby Foundation
and by a partnership award from IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
David J.C. MacKay
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