Christopher Bishop is Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, and is also Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh. He graduated in physics from Oxford, and has a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Edinburgh with a thesis on quantum field theory. His research interests include probabilistic approaches to machine learning, as well as their application to fields such as computer vision. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge. In 2004 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 2007 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He holds a commercial pilots licence and for relaxation enjoys flying aerobatics.
Events:
- Machines that learn
- The Christmas Lectures at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
- The Christmas Lectures at the Edinburgh International Science Festival
- Great ideas behind the digital revolution
- Breaking the speed limit
- Chips with everything
- Digital intelligence
- The ghost in the machine
- Untangling the web