Biography:Christopher Bishop
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| Born | 7 April 1959 Norwich, England |
| Education | Earlham School |
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| Known for | Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) book |
| Spouse(s) | 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 (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]
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]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
- ↑ {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Professor Christopher Bishop elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh". University of Edinburgh School of Informatics. https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/news/chrisbishopfrse.html.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 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.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Christopher Bishop at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 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 2003-04-18.
- ↑ https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/council-for-science-and-technology/about/membership
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 ",". Who's Who. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. 2021. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U249776. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U249776. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Anon (2017). "Christopher Bishop". London: Royal Society. https://royalsociety.org/people/christopher-bishop-13381/.
- ↑ "Microsoft Research Cambridge". https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/cmbishop/.
- ↑ 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. doi:10.1111/1467-9868.00196. ISSN 1369-7412.
- ↑ 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". http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2011/May/world-leading-engineer-set-to-collect-top-prize.
- ↑ "Royal Academy of Engineering". https://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2011/May/world-leading-engineer-set-to-collect-top-prize.
- ↑ "Professor Christopher M Bishop FREng FRSE, FRS - The Royal Society of Edinburgh" (in en-GB). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/christopher-bishop/.
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