Peter Jackson is chief scientist of The Thomson Corporation,
where he leads a group of forty people specializing in the retrieval,
mining and classification of professional information. He has
spent the last 12 years in Thomson's legal publishing businesses,
where he oversaw the technologies behind products like Litigation
Monitor and Medical Litigator. Over the last 20 years, he has
published 3 books and about 40 papers on expert systems, automated
reasoning, and natural language processing.
Peter has a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from the University
of Leeds, Yorkshire, and a B.Sc. in human psychology from Aston
University in Birmingham, England. Prior to joining Thomson, he
was a lecturer of artificial intelligence at Edinburgh University
in Scotland, an associate professor of electrical and computer
engineering at Clarkson University in New York, and principal
scientist of applied mathematics and computer science at McDonnell
Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis, MO.