David J. C. MacKay
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| Born | David John Cameron MacKay 22 April 1967 Stoke-on-Trent, England | 
| Died | 14 April 2016 (aged 48) Cambridge, England | 
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| Spouse | Ramesh Ghiassi (m. 2011) | 
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| Thesis | Bayesian methods for adaptive models (1992) | 
| Doctoral advisor | John Hopfield | 
| Website | withouthotair www gov | 
Sir David John Cameron MacKay (22 April 1967 – 14 April 2016) was a British physicist, mathematician, and academic. He was the Regius Professor of Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and from 2009 to 2014 was Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC). MacKay wrote the book Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air.