Chris Wallace

Chris Wallace

Professor Christopher Stewart Wallace was an Australian computer scientist notable for having devised: The minimum message length principle — an information-theoretic principle in statistics, econometrics, machine learning, inductive inference and knowledge discovery which can be seen both as a mathematical formalisation of Occam's Razor and as an invariant Bayesian method of model selection and point estimation, The Wallace tree multiplier, a variety of random number generators, a theory in physics and philosophy that entropy is not the arrow of time, a refrigeration system, hardware for detecting and counting cosmic rays, design of computer operating systems, and a vast range of other works - see, e.

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