Chris Bishop is a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research Cambridge, where
he leads the Machine Learning and Perception group. He is also Professor of Computer
Science at the University of Edinburgh, and Vice President of the Royal Institution of
Great Britain. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Edinburgh, and a Fellow of Darwin College Cambridge. His research interests
include probabilistic approaches to machine learning, as well as their practical application.
Chris is the author of the leading textbook “Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition”
(Oxford University Press, 1995) which has over 15,000 citations, and which helped to bring
statistical concepts into the mainstream of the machine learning field. His latest textbook
“Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning” (Springer, 2006) has over 4,000 citations,
and has been widely adopted. In 2008 he presented the 180th series of annual Royal
Institution Christmas Lectures, with th
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