Peter Jackson
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Professional Information
I am currently chief scientist at Thomson Reuters with responsibility for corporate research and development. 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. Key areas of expertize include information retrieval, document categorization, machine learning, and text data mining.
Our technology has powered many new products in recent years, such as the ResultsPlus recommendation system on Westlaw, the Medical Litigator search tool, which provides attorneys with links to up to date medical information, and WestSearch, the new search engine on WestlawNext.
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?
I am attending the SIIA Information Industry Summit in January and Legal Tech in February, both in New York.
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.
In July, I served on a publishers panel at the ICBO conference in Buffalo, NY, on Biomedical Ontology.
In June, I gave a talk at the Elite User Conference in San Diego.
In May, I appeared on a panel on 'Innovation for Information Companies' at SIIA NetGain in San Francisco.
