Christopher Bishop

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| caption = Bishop in 2017

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|4|7|df=y}}

| birth_place = Norwich, England

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| fields = Machine learning{{Google scholar id}}

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| education = Earlham School

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St Catherine's College, Oxford (BA)
University of Edinburgh (PhD)

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| thesis_title = The semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications

| thesis_url = http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11984

| thesis_year = 1983

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Neil Lawrence{{MathGenealogy}}{{cite thesis|url=http://thelawrences.net/neil/thesis.pdf|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Cambridge|title=Variational Inference in Probabilistic Models|first=Neil David|last=Lawrence|date=2000|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.621104}}|website=thelawrences.net|oclc=894596569|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030418233723/http://thelawrences.net/neil/thesis.pdf|archivedate=2003-04-18}} {{free access}}
Danielle Belgrave}}

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| known_for = Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PRML) book

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Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2008)[http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch/2008/hi-tech-trek 2008 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures]
Turing Lecture (2010)}}

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| website = {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/cmbishop/}}

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| spouse = {{marriage|Jennifer Morris|1988}}

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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 [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/lab/microsoft-research-ai4science/ 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 [https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/ai-council UK AI Council], and in 2019 he was appointed to the [https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/council-for-science-and-technology/about/membership Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology].

Early life and education

Christopher Michael Bishop was born on 7 April 1959 in Norwich, England, to Leonard and Joyce Bishop.{{Who's Who|title=Bishop, Prof. Christopher Michael|year=2021|id=U249776|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U249776}} 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, with a thesis on quantum field theory supervised by David Wallace and Peter Higgs.{{cite web|publisher=University of Edinburgh School of Informatics|title=Professor Christopher Bishop elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=8 September 2020|url=https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/news/chrisbishopfrse.html}}{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Edinburgh|title=The semi-classical technique in field theory : some applications|first= Christopher Michael|last=Bishop|date=1983|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.346542}}|hdl=1842/11984|oclc=59284998}} {{free access}}

Research and career

Bishop investigates machine learning,{{cite web|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/christopher-bishop-13381/|title=Christopher Bishop|year=2017

|author=Anon|website=royalsociety.org|publisher=Royal Society|location=London}} in which computers are made to learn from data and experience.{{cite web |title=Microsoft Research Cambridge |url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/cmbishop/ |website=Microsoft}}{{cite book|title=Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition|publisher=Oxford University Press|first=Christopher Michael|last=Bishop|year=1995|isbn=9780198538646}}{{cite journal|last1=Tipping|first1=Michael E.|last2=Bishop|first2=Christopher M.|title=Probabilistic Principal Component Analysis|journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B|volume=61|issue=3|year=1999|pages=611–622|issn=1369-7412|doi=10.1111/1467-9868.00196|citeseerx=10.1.1.35.2022|s2cid=15538672}} His former doctoral students include Neil Lawrence and Danielle Belgrave.

=Publications=

Bishop is the author of two highly cited and widely adopted machine learning text books: Neural Networks for Pattern RecognitionNeural Networks for Pattern Recognition (1995) {{ISBN missing}} and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/cmbishop/prml-book/ (2006) {{ISBN missing}}

His latest book, Deep Learning, Foundations and Concepts, was published in 2023 by Springer. Deep Learning, Foundations and Concepts (2023), https://www.bishopbook.com.

=Awards and honours=

Bishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009[http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/all-news/bishop-011209 Tam Dalyell Prize] and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011.{{Cite web |url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2011/May/world-leading-engineer-set-to-collect-top-prize |title=Royal Academy of Engineering, Rooke Medal |access-date=1 September 2015 |archive-date=14 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914095625/https://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2011/May/world-leading-engineer-set-to-collect-top-prize |url-status=dead }} He gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in 2008 and the Turing Lecture in 2010. Bishop was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in 2004,{{Cite web|url=https://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2011/May/world-leading-engineer-set-to-collect-top-prize|title=Royal Academy of Engineering|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914095625/https://www.raeng.org.uk/news/news-releases/2011/May/world-leading-engineer-set-to-collect-top-prize|archive-date=14 September 2021|access-date=1 February 2018|url-status=dead}} a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007,{{Cite news|url=https://www.rse.org.uk/fellow/christopher-bishop/|title=Professor Christopher M Bishop FREng FRSE, FRS - The Royal Society of Edinburgh|work=The Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=2018-02-01|language=en-GB}} and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.