The author is Chris Bishop... who wrote one of the "essential" machine learning books : http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Information-Statisti

The author is Chris Bishop... who wrote one of the "essential" machine learning books : http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Information-Statistics/dp/0387310738/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275227337&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informati...