Peter Jackson (scientist)

Peter Eric Jackson (1949, Bridgetown, Barbados — August 3, 2011, Burnsville, Minnesota) was Chief Scientist and head of R&D at Thomson Reuters.

Biography
He was born in 1949 in Bridgetown, Barbados, and graduated from Leeds University, UK, with a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence. He died August 3, 2011, aged 62, at home in Burnsville, Minnesota, USA.

Publications

 * Introduction to Expert Systems, Addison Wesley (1986, 1992, 1999)
 * Logic-Based Knowledge Representation, MIT Press (1989)
 * Natural Language Processing for Online Applications, John Benjamins (2002, 2007)