Presentations by David MacKay
2016
- [February 11th, 2016]
- Renewables for 4M15, CUED:
Renewables
- [January 22nd, 2016]
- Cambridge Post-Paris meeting:
Seven Elephants in the Room
2015
- [December 2nd, 2015]
- House of Lords / Sense about Science:
Why Making Good Energy Policy is Difficult -
reflections on 5 years in Whitehall ; and
How to improve the International Negotiations
- October 2015
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Why climate change action is difficult
– and how we can make
a difference
- BP International Centre for Advanced Materials Annual Conference – 20 October 2015
- July 2015
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Why climate change action is difficult
– and how we can make
a difference
- UAI 2015, Amsterdam
- June 2015
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
- a lecture at the Royal Institution in London
- April 2015
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Climate Change Action and
Climate Science - slides for David Howarth's course.
- 30 April 2015
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Why 'Good Energy Policy' is difficult - reflections on five years in DECC
- talk for HMTreasury
2014
- November 14 2014
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Simonyi lecture, Oxford [see also audience discussion page on my blog]
- November 3 2014
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IPCC AR5 Synthesis Report Discussion Meeting
- October 2014
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Sustainable Engineering - Why climate change action is difficult, and how engineers can help
- CUED - Engineering Tripos
- October 2014
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
[Nachhaltige Energie -
ohne den heißen Luft]
- Göttingen Literary festival, Germany
- September 2014
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The Global Calculator (globalcalculator.org)
- September 2014
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Sustainable Energy -
from academia to Whitehall
- talk for IMAGES Energy Storage research consortium, Loughborough.
- June 2014
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Shale Gas - The Issues
- May 2014
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British Energy Challenge at Hay festival
- March 2014
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The Lunar Society in Birmingham —
Sustainable Energy - from Academia to Whitehall
(for the organizers: download all slides - Lunar.zip)
- March 2014
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The IET's Clerk-Maxwell Lecture —
Climate, Energy Arithmetic, and 2050 Pathways
(for teachers: download all slides - 2050.zip)
2013
- November 2013
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DECC - Energy Entrepreneurs Scheme:
Energy Plans
- and the crucial role of innovation
- October 2013
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4th World Materials Summit, Strasbourg: 2050 Pathways -
energy arithmetic and climate change action
- June 2013
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Melchett Lecture - Energy Institute - Sustainable Energy
- from academia to Whitehall
- April 2013
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Talk for Bioenergy workshop
- January 2013
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Climate Science and Climate Change Policy
- talk for David Howarth's Environmental Policy class at Cambridge University
- January 2013:
- CSAR, Cambridge Keeping the Lights on in 2050: how can we do it and how much will it cost?
2012
- Thursday 29 November 2012
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Blackett Memorial Lecture of the Operational Research Society - at The Royal Society - 2050 Pathways
- September 2012: EPFL Lausanne
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
- September 2012
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Swiss Energy and Climate Symposium, Bern
- July 2012
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DECC's ambitions for the
energy system, and some
questions about our
lead scenarios
- talk for Energy Research Partnership
- July 2012
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Information Theory and Sustainable Energy
- talk for International Conference on Machine Learning, Edinburgh
- March 2012
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Does storage have a significant role in
the UK's
future generation mix?
- talk for IMechEng Conference
- March 2012
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People, Power, Area -
how the laws of physics constrain our sustainable energy options
- talk for TEDx Warwick
- January 2012
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Climate Science and Climate Change Policy
- talk for David Howarth's Environmental Policy class at Cambridge University
- January 2012
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Could energy-intensive industries be
powered by carbon-free electricity?
- talk for Royal Society meeting on Material Efficiency
- January 2012
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Sustainable Shipping
- presentation for Royal Academy of Engineering working group on marine propulsion
2011
- December 2011
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Climate Science and implications for UK/International policy
- presentation for Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and Westminster Energy Forum
- November 2011
- Energy Arithmetic for the UK and for the world / Solar energy
in the context of energy use, energy transportation, and energy storage
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Slides for Royal Society on "Can Solar Deliver?"
[ PDF (large file!)]
- September 2011
- Physics of sustainability - a UK perspective -
Slides for Winton International Advisory Board Meeting
[ PDF (large file!)]
- September 2011
- Heat Pump Installation Standards
Talk at DECC, launching the new Microgeneration Certification Standards for Heat Pumps
- January 2011
- The Future Energy
Landscape in the UK - 2050 Scenarios with
and without storage.
Talk for Royal Academy of Engineering / Chinese Academy of Sciences meeting on Energy Storage
2010
- May 2010
- 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' - Oxford Engineering edition [html slides]
- April 2010
- 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' - Google/Stanford edition [html slides]
- April 2010
- 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' - Caltech/UCSB/JPL edition [html slides]
- April 2010
- 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' - MIT/Harvard edition [html slides]
- February 2010
- 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' [html slides]
- February 2010
- 'The Scale of the Decarbonization Challenge' - for Royal Society meeting on greenhouse gases in the earth system [html slides]
- January 2010
- 'Roadmaps to 2050' [html slides]
- January 2010
- '100 days in government' [html slides only]
2009
- December 09
- 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' (special edition) - for Shell, Runcorn [html slides]
[huge pdf]
- August 09
- Information Theory - lecture 1 - Machine Learning Summer School, Cambridge
- Information Theory - lecture 2 - Machine Learning Summer School, Cambridge
- June 09
- 'Sustainable Energy - without the hot air' (short version) - for Department for Transport [html slides]
[pdf]
- May 09
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Complete data on the power-per-unit-area of all UK windfarms
with more than 7 turbines [html slides]
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The Potential of Renewables - Especially Wind [html slides]
[pdf]
- March 09
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air [html slides]
(Royal Holloway University of London)
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air [html slides]
(Cambridge Science festival)
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air [html slides]
|
[pdf] (ARM, Cambridge)
- January 09
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How does work work? (talk for Theoretical Chemistry group, Cambridge) [html slides]
2008
- December 08
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (book launch version!) [html slides]
|
[pdf]
- December 08
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (short version, Prince's teaching inst., Royal Society) [html slides]
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[pdf]
- November 08
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Energy plans that add up (a new talk, 'part II', for ELCF, CUED) [html slides]
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[pdf]
- Mon 13/10/08
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (EPRG) (a short talk on an example energy plan for 2050) [html slides]
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[pdf]
- 7/08, 9/08
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (BRE edition) [html slides]
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[pdf]
- 5/08
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Culham edition) [html slides]
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[pdf]
- 4/08
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (Edinburgh edition) [html slides]
- Thu 20/3/08
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (special Boston edition) [html slides]
| pdf file
- Wed 19/3/08
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (short 2008 version) [html slides]
| pdf file
- 18/3/08
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The Thinking Machine? (closing remarks for meeting in Cambridge) [html slides]
| pdf file
- Fri 7/3/08
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Carbon and Energy Numeracy [html slides]
- 18 Feb 2008
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Infera - a Bayesian team-ranking program
from 1996
[html slides]
- Thu 28/2/08
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Biofuels [html slides]
- Fri 15/2/08
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (short 2008 version) [html slides]
| pdf file
- Wed 16/1/08
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (2008 version) [html slides]
2007
- Wed 5/12/07
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (the long version) [html slides]
- Thu 22/11/07
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Error-correcting codes - tutorial, CUED [html slides]
[pdf of slides]
- Thu 6/9/07
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (the short version) [html slides]
[pdf of slides (25M)]
(20-minute talk for CETC, 25 October 2007)
- Thu 6/9/07
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air (the short version) [html slides]
[pdf of slides (25M)]
(20-minute talk for Pembroke College, 12 October 2007)
- Thu 6/9/07
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
(presentation at E-ON, Coventry)
- Sun 29/7/07
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Bliss-Dasher - efficient semantic writing with any muscle
(presentation at Dundee Bliss Meeting 2007)
- Tue 26/6/07
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Sustainable Energy - without the BS
(presentation at British Antarctic Survey)
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Dasher - information-efficient text entry (19th April 2007)
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Google tech talk (54 minute video)
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Numbers not Adjectives -
A Rough Guide to the Sustainable Energy Problem
- (presentation to U3A, Cambridge: 15th Feb 2007)
(also available in a single 22M pdf file)
2006
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Gaussian Processes Basics (VIDEO, 1hr)
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Gaussian Processes in Practice Workshop, Bletchley Park 2006.
(associated slides (pdf file))
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Oct/November 2006 Nested sampling by John Skilling, David MacKay, and Iain Murray
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Talk at Newton Institute
- Oct 26
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Sustainable
Energy - without the bullshit
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5 June 2006 Sleeping Beauty and the Armchair Cosmologist
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Presentation at Bayesian Methods in Cosmology
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3 May 2006 Capacity of the Deletion Channel
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Presentation of work by Drinea and Mitzenmacher
2005
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Oct 27 Fountain codes
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Talk for Thames Valley IEE
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May 2005 Nested sampling by John Skilling, David MacKay, and Iain Murray
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Talk at Lancaster Statistics Department
(see also Nested sampling 2006)
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Apr 21 Tries and Bloom filters
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For Inference group
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Apr 20 Astronomical image recognition
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with Sam Roweis; For Inference group, and Cosmology lunch
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Feb 16 Taking Bigger Metropolis steps by Dragging fast variables
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Slides for a journal club discussing a paper by Radford Neal
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Feb 24 Nested sampling by John Skilling, David MacKay, and Iain Murray
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Talk at TCM, Cavendish Laboratory
(see also Nested sampling 2005
and Nested sampling 2006)
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Dasher presentations
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- October 2005
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Dasher for the blind and vision-impaired (html)
- September 2005
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Dasher - writing fast and free with any muscle - Closing The Gap 2005 (html)
(includes slides used for presentation at Princeton University)
- July 2005
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Hands-free writing - banquet presentation for UAI 2005 (html)
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July 2005
A neuron that communicates 10 words per minute (html)
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a presentation about Dasher's new button modes.
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July 2005
Korean in Dasher (html)
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shows how to write Korean using a simple roughly-80-character alphabet.
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May/June 2005 Dasher's new eyetracking mode
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Cogain, Denmark
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May/June 2005 All about Dasher
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Cogain, Denmark
2004
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Oct 28 Bayesian approximation theory
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Oct 12 Fountain codes
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Oct 1 Distributed Phase Codes
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David MacKay and Seb Wills
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Dasher presentations
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Nov 16 Dasher: Writing efficiently with any muscle - AND FREE
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St John's Innovation Centre
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Oct 21 Dasher: Writing efficiently with any muscle
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BECTA seminar
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Sep 12 Information-efficient text entry
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Sheffield machine learning workshop
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Sep 2 Dasher for Cogain
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Cogain Launch, Finland
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Aug 10 Alternative Controls for Dasher
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Includes figures from `Efficient communication with one or two buttons'
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Jul 30 Text entry, Bayesian inference, and Universal prediction
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Jul 24 Probability, information, and Hands-free writing
- Maxent 2004
David MacKay
Last modified: Mon May 24 08:44:05 2010