Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) FRS FRSE FREng[7] 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.
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Born | Norwich, England | 7 April 1959
Education | Earlham School |
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Known for | Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) book |
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Jennifer Morris (m. 1988) |
Children | 2 |
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Fields | Machine learning[2] |
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Thesis | The semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications (1983) |
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Website | www |
Christopher Michael Bishop was born on 7 April 1959 in Norwich, England, to Leonard and Joyce Bishop.[8] 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,[8] with a thesis on quantum field theory supervised by David Wallace and Peter Higgs.[3][4]
Bishop investigates machine learning,[7] 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.
Bishop 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]
Bishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009[14] and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011.[15] 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,[16] a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007,[17] and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[7]
Bishop married Jennifer Mary Morris in 1988. They have two sons.[8]