Christopher Bishop
British computer scientist (born 1959)
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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. Bishop 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.[7]
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Christopher Bishop | |
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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] |
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| Thesis | The semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications (1983) |
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| Website | www |
Early life and education
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]
Research and career
Bishop investigates machine learning,[9] in which computers are made to learn from data and experience.[10][11][12] His former doctoral students include Neil Lawrence[5][6] and Danielle Belgrave.
Publications
Bishop is the author of two highly cited and widely adopted machine learning text books: Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition[13] and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.[14] His latest book, Deep Learning, Foundations and Concepts, was published in 2023 by Springer.[15]
Awards and honours
Bishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009[16] and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011.[17] 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,[18] a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007,[19] and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.[9]
Personal life
Bishop married Jennifer Mary Morris in 1988. They have two sons.[8]
