Philip C. Jackson, Jr.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., 2014, Artificial Intelligence, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

M.Sc., 1979, Information Sciences, University of California at Santa Cruz.

B.Sc., 1971, Interdepartmental in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy, Stanford University. National Merit Scholar at Caltech and Stanford.

EMPLOYMENT

Retired, May 2010. Enjoying life!

Technology Consultant V [1], HP Enterprise Services. (1990 [2] - 2010) Consulted on business and architecture solutions in diverse technologies. Provided leadership in the design and development of enterprise systems, as well as program & project technical leadership. Developed innovative solutions for clients in diverse areas, including engineering, manufacturing, sales, finance and securities. Authored technology strategy and impact papers on cloud computing, Web 2.0, business models, etc.

Senior Knowledge Engineer, Inference Corporation. (1985 - 1990) Technical leader responsible for project planning and management, software estimation, and design and implementation of systems involving extensible, domain-independent machine diagnosis, manufacturing and assembly cost estimation, qualitative product design, and auto loan credit analysis.

Design Specialist, Lockheed Missiles & Space Company. (1983 - 1985) Lead Engineer of a Telemetry Software Design team.  Cognizant Engineer for Telemetry subcontracts. Developed real-time data acquisition software, and telemetry CAD graphics and database software, telemetry equipment test software and firmware.

Member of Technical Staff, Hewlett-Packard Computer Aided Design Laboratory.(1981 - 1983) Developed graphics algorithms for clipping, picking and filling complex polygons in 2 and 3 dimensions. Developed graphics database access methods and merged input algorithms.

Senior Systems Analyst, NCR Engineering & Manufacturing. (1979 - 1981) Developed database transaction recovery software and systems for simulation of database activity, used in product testing. Research on variations of B-tree database access methods.

{Attended UCSC from 1977 to 1979. During this period worked part-time consulting on develop­ment of a CAD system for LSI design at Data General Corporation. Also worked at NASA Ames Research Center studying possible enhancements and successors to the Illiac IV supercomputer.}

Systems Programmer, Itel Corporation. (1975 - 1977) Developed MIS and research databases for transaction tracking, fleet management, and futures market analysis. Developed systems for restructuring databases and for graphic and statistical analysis of databases.

Programmer, Stanford Sumex Project. (1974 - 1975) Participated in research meetings and project proposals.

Research Scientist, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.(1972 - 1974) Developed a natural language system for answering questions in English about Lisp programs. Participated in research meetings on design of frame-based knowledge representation languages.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Cognitive Science Society, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

PUBLICATIONS

Jackson, P. C. Toward Human-Level Artificial Intelligence - Representation and Computation of Meaning in Natural Language. Doctoral Thesis, 2014. http://www.philjackson.prohosting.com/PCJacksonPhDThesis20140422.pdf

Jackson, P. C. Proving unsatisfiability for problems with constant cubic sparsity, Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 57, 1992, pp. 125-137.

Vora, L. S., Veres, R. E., Jackson, P. C., and Klahr, P. TIES: An engineering design methodology and system, Proceedings of 1990 AAAI Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 59-65.

Jackson, P. C. Meta-belief intervals, Proceedings of IASTED 1987 Conference on Expert Systems, Geneva, Switzerland.

Jackson, P. C. Elements of variable precision logic based on ART, Proceedings of Society of Automotive Engineers 1987 Conference.

Jackson, P. C. and Maletz, M. C. Critical path resource allocation using ART viewpoints, Proceedings of 1986 Avignon Conference on Knowledge Engineering.

Jackson, P. C. Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Second Edition, Dover Publications, New York, 1985. First Edition, Mason-Charter Publishers, New York, 1974. 514 pages.

DeRemer, F., Levy, P., Hanson, S., Jackson, P., Julig, R., Pittman, T. Summary of the characteristics of several “modern” programming languages. ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 14, Issue 5, May 1979, pp. 28-45.

Jackson, P. C. Concept - A Context for High-Level Descriptions of Systems Which Develop Concepts. Master's Thesis, University Microfilms, 1979.