Peter Jackson

I am a seasoned technology executive with a background that includes 28 years experience in R&D, the last 12 of which have been spent in the online information business. I have a proven track record of working with new product development and strategic marketing functions to deliver state-of-the-art applications that generate new revenues. My specialty lies in the delivery of innovative solution components for document retrieval, text categorization and information extraction technologies.

Experience in Internet Publishing

2008-.  Chief Scientist & Vice-President, Technology, Thomson Reuters Professional.

New position as of April in new division comprising our legal, tax, science and medical businesses.

2007-2008.  Chief Scientist & Vice-President, Technology, Thomson Corporation.

Leader of Research & Development, a group of 40 scientists, with responsibility for technical innovation across Thomson's global businesses in the areas of search, metadata, and language processing.

2005-2006. Chief Research Scientist & Vice-President, Technology, Thomson Legal & Regulatory (TLR).

Achievements include the development of information extraction software for Thomson West's Firm360 product and creation of Japanese language search engine for Westlaw.

2002-2004. Vice-President, Research & Development, Thomson Legal & Regulatory.

Achievements include the release of a new document recommendation system for Westlaw, called ResultsPlus, and the incorporation of automatic document categorization into the West KM knowledge management suite.

2000-2002. Senior Director, Research & Development, Thomson Legal & Regulatory.

Achievements include non-English indexing and retrieval technology to establish three new online services: Westlaw DE (Germany), Editions Yvon Blais (Canada), LaLey (Argentina) and IOB (Brazil).

1997-2000. Director, Computer Science Research, West Group.

Achievements include new document linking and database selection software in production on Westlaw.

1995-1997. Lead Software Engineer, Natural Language Group, Thomson Legal Publishing.

Achievements include implementation of a computer-assisted citation manager called History Assistant that extracts rulings from court reports and identifies the impacted cases.

Academics

B.Sc. Human Psychology, University of Aston in Birmingham, UK, 1976-1979.

Ph.D. Artificial Intelligence, Leeds University, UK, 1979-1982.

Lecturer, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh University, Scotland, 1983-1988.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer Science, Washington University in Saint Louis, 1992.

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA, 1992-1995.

Visiting Professor, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Singapore Polytechnic, 1994.

Author of three books: Introduction to Expert Systems, Addison-Wesley, 1986, 1990, 1999; Logic-Based Knowledge Representation, MIT Press, 1989; Natural Language Processing for Online Applications: Text Retrieval, Extraction & Categorization, John Benjamins, 2002, 2007.

Author of about 40 refereed papers on automated reasoning, expert systems, natural language processing and information retrieval, 1981-.

Co-Inventor on United States Patent 7,062,498, Systems, methods and software for classifying text from judicial opinions and other documents, granted June 13, 2006.

Advisory Committee, World Wide Web Consortium, 1999-2003.

Advisory Committee, University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center,  2003-2007.

Executive Advisory Board for Curriculum, MIS Research Center, Carlson School of Management, 2002-2006.

Program Committee, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL), 2001-2007.

Program Committee, IASTED Conference on Law and Technology (LAWTECH), 2006.

Program Committee, European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 2008.

Reviewer for FFG Ősterreichische Forschungsfőrderungsgesellschaft (Austrian Research Promotion Agency), FIT-IT Semantic Systems, 2006.