Christopher Michael Bishop (born 7 April 1959) is the Laboratory Director at Microsoft Research Cambridge, Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. Bishop is a member of the UK AI Council. He was also recently appointed to the Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology. Education Bishop 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 supervised by David Wallace and Peter Higgs. Research and career Bishop investigates machine learning, in which computers are made to learn from data and experience. Written works Bishop is the author of two highly cited and widely adopted machine learning text books: Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition (1995) and Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (2006). Awards and honours Bishop was awarded the Tam Dalyell prize in 2009 and the Rooke Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2011. 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, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2007, and Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017. References 1959 births Living people British physicists British computer scientists Computer science educators Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh Academics of Aston University Fellows of the British Computer Society Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society Microsoft employees Microsoft Research people Computer science writers