The book “neural networks and pattern recognition” by bishop dates to 1996 and has a red cover, at least in its current softcover iteration. The random forest

The book “neural networks and pattern recognition” by bishop dates to 1996 and has a red cover, at least in its current softcover iteration. The random forest guy you mean is/was Leo Breiman. His student Adele Cutler deserves some of the credit there too.