Christopher Bishop
| Chris Bishop | |
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| Born |
Christopher Michael Bishop 7 April 1959[1] |
| Residence | Cambridge, UK |
| Fields |
Machine learning Neural networks Pattern recognition Natural language processing |
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| Alma mater |
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| Thesis | The semi-classical technique in field theory: some applications (1983) |
| Doctoral advisor |
David Wallace Peter Higgs[2] |
| Doctoral students | Neil Lawrence[3] |
| Known for | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2008)[4] |
| Notable awards |
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Website research | |
Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) FREng, FRSE, is the Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge and professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.[6]
Education
Chris obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Edinburgh, with a thesis on quantum field theory. [1][6]
Works
- Bishop, Christopher M. (2006). Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (PDF). Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-31073-2.
References
- 1 2 BISHOP, Prof. Christopher Michael. Who's Who. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
- ↑ Christopher Bishop at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Lawrence, Neil (2001). Variational inference in probabilistic models (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
- ↑ "Christmas Lectures 2008 - Hi-tech Trek by Christopher Bishop".
- ↑ Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
- 1 2 "Microsoft Research Cambridge".
External links
- Tam Dalyell Prize
- Royal Academy of Engineering, Rooke Medal
- Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (Oxford University Press, 1995)
- Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Springer, 2006)
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