Peter Jackson

Professional Information

I am currently chief scientist at Thomson Reuters with responsibility for corporate research and development and university collaboration.  Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source of intelligent information for business and professionals.

R&D is a group of 40 research scientists and software engineers that delivers enabling technologies to our global publishing and solutions businesses.  Our specialty is applied research and rapid development to prove new product concepts and deliver key components of the final system.  Main areas of expertise are information retrieval, document categorization, machine learning, and data mining.

R&D innovations have powered many new online services in recent years, such as the ResultsPlus recommendation system on Westlaw, the Medical Litigator navigation tool, which provides attorneys with links to up to date medical information, and WestSearch, the new search engine on WestlawNext.

In addition to running R&D, I am also responsible for university liaison with respect to joint research projects.

Please feel free to check out my blog on information technology and the Internet.

Personal Information 

I was born in Barbados and went to school in England.  I have also lived in Scotland (Edinburgh) and the United States (Saint Louis, MO and Rochester, NY).  Now I live in Saint Paul, MN.

I am serving my sixth year on the Board of Directors for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.  In recent times, I have traveled to Chicago, New York and Ojai to support the SPCO on tour.

What's New?

Returned to Aspen in August for a roundtable on the Future of Work at the Aspen Institute.

I attended the Festival of Ideas in Aspen.

Interview on the SLAW legal blog about WestlawNext, June 24.

I attended All Things Digital is Los Angeles, June 1-3.

Attended SIIA NetGain in San Francisco, May 24-25.

I gave a talk at the New Directions in Text Analysis conference at Harvard University in May.

I'm on a panel about Innovation Management at the MHTA Spring Conference in Minneapolis on April 22.

I attended the SIIA Information Industry Summit in January and Legal Tech in February.

In October, I visited the MIT Media Lab for their industry sponsors event.  I also served on the panel "A Radical Rethink of R&D" at the Breakthrough Forum in Minneapolis.