Peter Jackson (scientist)

Peter Eric Jackson was a scientist granted his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Leeds University, UK. He was born c. 1949 in Bridgetown, Barbados. He died August 3, 2011, aged 62, at home in Burnsville, MN, USA.

External links

• Newspaper obituary
• Death notice at employer
• His own website
  • Resume
    • Chief Scientist, Thomson Reuters (the following entries are pasted from one of his books' product descriptions on Amazon)
    • "Director of Research at West Group, a division of The Thomson Corporation and the leading provider of information to the US legal market."
    • "Principal Scientist at the McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in Saint Louis, Missouri"
    • "Lecturer in the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland"
  • The resume above lists his four patents granted and three books published
    • (1 co-author) Natural Language Processing for Online Applications: John Benjamins 2002, 2007. In 427 libraries (WorldCat).
    • (2 co-editors) Logic-Based Knowledge Representation: MIT Press 1989. In 314 libraries (WorldCat).
    • Introduction to Expert Systems: Addison Wesley (1986, 1992, 1999). In 715 libraries (WorldCat).
  • Selected papers and reviews
    • His and J. Pais's 1990 paper "Computing prime implicants" has 25 citations in Web of Science.
    • His and his co-authors' 2003 paper "Information extraction from case law and retrieval of prior cases" has 2 citations in Web of Science.
    • His and his co-authors' 1998 paper "Information extraction from case law and retrieval of prior cases by partial parsing and query generation" has 4 citations in INSPEC.
• His own blog
• Interviews with him and articles about him
  • Thomson Reuters' Brain, Twin Cities Business (PDF: 31,273 audited monthly readership)
  • On WestlawNext... at award-winning Canadian law blog slaw.ca.