Peter Jackson is Director of Research at West Group, a division of The Thomson Corporation and the leading provider
of information to the US legal market. Peter drives the application of natural language and information retrieval
technologies to the information needs of law and business. Previous appointments include Principal Scientist at
the McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in Saint Louis, Missouri, and Lecturer in the Department of Artificial
Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Summary
The most popular basic introduction to Expert Systems is revised and updated to include new information on blackboard
systems and has extended coverage of reasoning.
