Christopher Bishop
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 |
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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.