J. Mark Bishop
Chief Scientific Adviser @Fact360
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WORK HISTORY
Chief Scientific Adviser @Fact360
London, GB
FACT360 is a UK company pioneering the use of AI and unsupervised machine learning to help organisations find critical information that exists within their communication networks.Underpinned by leading edge academic research, its practical solutions generate results that are impossible to achieve in other ways.Formed in 2017, FACT360 is widely used in fraud and insider threat investigations and applies the technology more broadly providing businesses with fact-based rationale on which to take strategic decisions.
EDUCATION
University of Reading
PhD, Cybernetics
Sir William Turner's Sixth Form College
A Levels, Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry, General Studies, Spoken English
ABOUT J. MARK BISHOP
Scientific Advisor to FACT360 (awarded best \"Mobile & Emerging Tech Start-up of 2022\" for their e-Discovery, Insider Threat Detection & HR Analytics AI platform), J. Mark Bishop is an International Fellow of the Karel Čapek Center Praha and Professor of Cognitive Computing (Emeritus) at Goldsmiths, where he led a team that has developed AI & Analytics for Fraud Detection and B2B e-procurement; research (widely reported at the time) that was deployed by the UK National Audit Office in 2011 to identify £500m potential savings in the annual NHS consumable budget.Over his career, Mark’s research has spanned the theory & practice of Artificial Intelligence. With an International track record as a consultant on AI & Data Ethics, he has been invited to advise on AI Policy at the UN (Geneva/Turin/Birmingham), the EC (Brussels) and the UK (Westminster/Whitehall). In addition, as an experienced speaker who enjoys discussing AI with both specialist & general audiences, Mark has been invited to present a number of international Plenary & Keynote addresses.In 2010 Mark was elected to Chair the AISB, the UK Society for \"Artificial Intelligence & Simulation of Behaviour\", and the world’s oldest professional body for AI. Mark served a four-year term as Chair, during which he was co-opted to join the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC).Having published 3 books, over 200+ articles and won £3m+ of research funding, Mark currently serves as Associate Editor of 9 Journals and is regularly asked to comment on AI, particularly in response to those who warn of its existential threat (e.g, Prof Hawking, Musk, Kurzweil et al, cf, New Scientist ). He has been honoured with a Biographic Feature in Le Monde, debated AI on BBC Radio 4’s flagship “Agree to Differ” and featured on Machine Learning Street Talk Mark\'s best-known contributions:a. A priori arguments proving computation cannot give rise to consciousness or understanding (Cf.\"Artificial intelligence is stupid and causal reasoning will not fix it\", Frontiers in Psychology; currently with more views than 99% of all Frontiers articles).b. Stochastic Diffusion Search - world\'s first Turing complete \'Swarm Intelligence\' algorithm (1989); subsequently, applied to Global Search & Optimization, Multi-Dimensional Knapsac, Parameter Estimation, Creativity, etc.(cf. SDS review:).c. The SENARIO Autonomous Vehicle.d. The NAPSAC Parameter Estimation alg.
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