Mark Watson

AI Generalist

Author of 20+ books, holder of 55 US patents, with over 40 years of experience working at organizations like Google, Mind AI, Capital One, Disney, SAIC, Baby List, Olive and CompassLabs.

40+ Years in AI

20+ Books Published

55 US Patents

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Work Experience
Mostly AI projects since 1985. Large scale distributed systems for DARPA and PacBell. Knowledge Graphs at Google. Master Software Engineer and managed an AI team at Capital One. 20 years in the defense industry at SAIC/Leidos.

Books

Read My Books — Many for Free

All of my recent books are available on Leanpub. Most can be read online at no cost.

Practical Python Artificial Intelligence Programming AI · Deep Learning · Semantic Web

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Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret Weapon Common Lisp · Deep Learning · NLP · Semantic Web

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Practical Artificial Intelligence Programming With Clojure Clojure · AI · Data Science · Semantic Web

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Haskell Tutorial and Cookbook Haskell · Functional Programming

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Practical AI Programming With Java Java · AI · Data Science · Semantic Web

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A Lisp Programmer Living in Python-Land (Hy Language) Hy · Python · AI · Knowledge Graphs

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More eBooks & Traditional Publications

Additional eBooks on Leanpub

Traditional Publications (Springer-Verlag, McGraw-Hill, Morgan Kaufmann)

📖 Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information Gathering and Processing — APress, 2009
📖 Java 10 Minute Solutions — Sybex, 2004
📖 Intelligent Java Applications for the Internet and Intranets — Morgan Kaufmann, 1997
📖 Common LISP Modules: AI in the Era of Neural Networks and Chaos Theory — Springer-Verlag, 1991
📖 Understanding UML: The Developer's Guide — Morgan Kaufmann, 1997
📖 C++ Power Paradigms — McGraw-Hill, 1994
📖 AI Agents in Virtual Reality Worlds — J. Wiley, 1996
📖 Programming in Scheme — Springer-Verlag, 1996
📖 Programming Intelligent Agents for the Internet — McGraw-Hill, 1996

Free Semantic Web PDFs & Material

Beyond Code

Connect & Interests

My writings, open source projects, consulting, and creative pursuits.

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Writings & Blogs

Follow my programming experiments and book updates on Blogspot, or subscribe to my AI reflections newsletter on Substack.

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Open Source

My repositories are open and active on GitHub, spanning NLP libraries, symbolic AI engines, and deep learning tools across 9+ programming languages.

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Consulting

I selectively take on small, high-impact consulting projects — particularly around LLM integration, knowledge graphs, and RAG architectures. Inquire via Email.

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Interests & Music

Outside of tech, I enjoy hiking the Arizona trails, photography, cooking, and making music. Here are some of my acoustic guitar and didgeridoo clips:

Boogie Guitar

Spanish Guitar

Didgeridoo Session