What I do

• the decoding of error-correcting codes (click for a demonstration), and
• machine learning (eg, language modelling, blind signal decomposition).
• We are also developing a human-computer interface (Dasher) that is driven by a single finger or by gaze-tracking.
• I work on the public understanding of science, especially Sustainable Energy.
• I've also dabbled in quite a few other fields, which are listed in my publications area

What you can find here

This website includes almost all the papers I have written - on Hebbian learning, Bayesian methods, Neural networks, Latent variable models, Error-correcting codes, and Natural selection; Some presentations. Two books: withouthotair.com - Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air [published December 2008] Information theory, inference, and learning algorithms my BibTeX file, mackay.bib, containing citations (email me if you think it's not up to date) much of the software that I have written, including simulation software, optimizers, and teaching software (information theory and neural networks | dynamics); databases of research results (especially for error-correcting codes) software for making error-correcting codes, and databases of such codes. data sets relating to machine learning.

Master site, UK | Mirror in Canada | Mirror in USA (under construction)