David J. C. MacKay

David J. C. MacKay was a physicist, computer scientist, and professor born on April 22, 1967, in Stoke-on-Trent . He held citizenship in the United Kingdom . MacKay was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, California Institute of Technology, and Newcastle-under-Lyme School . He was a student of John Hopfield and later went on to have his own doctoral student, Christian Steinruecken . MacKay's father was Donald MacCrimmon MacKay . He created the software called Dasher . David J. C. MacKay passed away on April 14, 2016, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire .