Peter Jackson (computer scientist)

Peter Eric Jackson (born 1949 in Bridgetown , Barbados ; † August 3, 2011 in Burnsville, Minnesota ) was a British computer scientist.

Jackson graduated from Aston University in Birmingham with a bachelor's degree in psychology, worked as a social worker for several years before resuming his studies, and received a PhD in computer science from the University of Leeds. He then taught at the University of Edinburgh. In 1988 he went to the US as a senior scientist at the McDonnell Douglas Research Labs. He also gave courses at Washington University in Saint Louis, Clarkson University in New York and at the Singapore Polytechnic. He was with Thomson Corporation from 1995 and became Chief Scientist at Thomson Reuters and Vice President of Technology. There he applied AI to legal topics (such as the Information Retrieval System for legal database precedents History Assistant ) and Thomson Reuters products.

His area of ​​expertise was artificial intelligence and he has written books on expert systems (translated into seven languages), knowledge representation and natural language processing.

As a hobby he also played jazz guitar at public appearances.

Fonts

• Introduction to Expert Systems, Addison-Wesley 1986, 1999
  • German edition: Expert systems - An introduction, Addison-Wesley 1987
• Logic-Based Knowledge Representation, MIT Press 1989
• with Isabelle Moulinier: Natural Language Processing for Online Applications: Text retrieval, extraction and categorization, John Benjamin Publ., 2002, 2007
• with Khalid Al-Kofahi, Alex Tyrell, Arun Vachher: ​​Information Extraction from Case Law and Retrieval of Prior Case, Artificial Intelligence, Volume 150, November 2003, Issue 1-2, pp. 239-290

Web links

• Biography at the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (2011)