Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is a British computer scientist. He is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and Director of Microsoft Research AI4Science. He is also Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. Chris was a founding member of the UK AI Council, and in 2019 he was appointed to the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology.
Christopher Bishop | |
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.jpg) Bishop in 2017 | |
| Born | 7 April 1959 Norwich, England |
| Education | Earlham School |
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| Known for | Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) book |
| Spouse |
Jennifer Morris (m. 1988) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Machine learning[2] |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | The semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications (1983) |
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| Website | www |
Early life and education
editChristopher Michael Bishop was born on 7 April 1959 in Norwich, England, to Leonard and Joyce Bishop.[7] He was educated at Earlham School in Norwich, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and later a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Edinburgh,[7] with a thesis on quantum field theory supervised by David Wallace and Peter Higgs.[3][4]
Research and career
editBishop investigates machine learning,[8] in which computers are made to learn from data and experience.[9][10][11] His former doctoral students include Neil Lawrence[5][6] and Danielle Belgrave.
Publications
editBishop is the author of two highly cited and widely adopted machine learning text books: Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition[12] and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.[13] His latest book, Deep Learning, Foundations and Concepts, was published in 2023 by Springer.[14]
Awards and honours
editBishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009[15] and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011.[16] He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2008[1] and the Turing Lecture in 2010. Bishop was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2004,[17] a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007,[18] and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[8]
Personal life
editBishop married Jennifer Mary Morris in 1988. They have two sons.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
- ^ Christopher Bishop publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b "Professor Christopher Bishop elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
- ^ a b Bishop, Christopher Michael (1983). The semi-classical technique in field theory : some applications (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/11984. OCLC 59284998. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.346542.
- ^ a b Christopher Bishop at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b Lawrence, Neil David (2000). Variational Inference in Probabilistic Models (PDF). thelawrences.net (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 894596569. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.621104. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 April 2003.
- ^ a b c "Bishop, Prof. Christopher Michael". Who's Who. A & C Black. 2021. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U249776. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b Anon (2017). "Christopher Bishop". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society.
- ^ "Microsoft Research Cambridge". Microsoft.
- ^ Bishop, Christopher Michael (1995). Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198538646.
- ^ Tipping, Michael E.; Bishop, Christopher M. (1999). "Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. 61 (3): 611–622. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.35.2022. doi:10.1111/1467-9868.00196. ISSN 1369-7412. S2CID 15538672.
- ^ Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (1995) [ISBN missing]
- ^ Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/cmbishop/prml-book/ (2006) [ISBN missing]
- ^ Deep Learning, Foundations and Concepts (2023), https://www.bishopbook.com.
- ^ Tam Dalyell Prize
- ^ "Royal Academy of Engineering, Rooke Medal". Archived from the original on 14 September 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ^ "Royal Academy of Engineering". Archived from the original on 14 September 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "Professor Christopher M Bishop FREng FRSE, FRS - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
