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Philip C. Jackson, Jr. (born February 8, 1949 in Globe, Arizona) is an American computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence.

Professional History
Jackson received an interdepartmental Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Mathematics and Philosophy from Stanford University in 1971; a Master of Sciences degree in Information Sciences from University of California, Santa Cruz in 1979; and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Tilburg University, The Netherlands, in 2014. (The doctoral thesis advisors were Prof. Dr. Harry C. Bunt and Prof. Dr. Walter Daelemans.)

Jackson authored the first general introductory textbook on AI, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, published in 1974. A Second Edition was published in 1985.

He worked at Xerox PARC, the Stanford SUMEX Project, and Itel Corporation from 1972 through 1977. From 1979 through 2010 he worked at NCR, Hewlett-Packard, Lockheed, Inference Corporation, and EDS (which was acquired by HP in 2008). During this period he published occasional papers on topics in artificial intelligence.

Jackson's 2014 doctoral thesis discusses how an AI system could have "higher-level mentalities" of human-level intelligence, including natural language understanding, self-programming and higher-level learning, curiosity, imagination, etc. This approach can leverage previous research in many areas of AI, yet will need further research and development to achieve human-level AI or be used for specific applications. In 2015 he founded TalaMind LLC, a consulting firm for research toward human-level artificial intelligence following this approach.

Jackson is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Cognitive Science Society, and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Selected Publications

 * Toward Human-Level Models of Minds, Jackson, P. C., 2017 AAAI Fall Symposium Series Technical Reports, FSS-17-05, pp. 371-375.
 * Toward Human-Level Artificial Intelligence - Representation and Computation of Meaning in Natural Language, Jackson, P. C. 2014, Doctoral Thesis, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
 * Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Jackson, P. C. 1985, Second Edition, Dover Publications.