Robert Horn

Basics Current Residence: Bainbridge Island, WA Title: Visiting Scholar Organization: Stanford University eMail: hornbob@earthlink.net Phone: 415-775-7377

Background 

Bob is the author of Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century.  The landmark book, out of print until recently, has been republished and will be available for sale at the conference. He is also the inventor of Information Mapping's Methodology and founder of the Company which is the leader in authoring structured content.

In addition, Bob is a visiting scholar at Stanford University and has taught at Harvard and Columbia universities. His pathbreaking book Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century is recently back in print. He is also author of the Mapping Great Debates series Can Computers Think? and of Mapping Hypertext. He is the director of the project to apply visual thinking to public policy issues, working on climate change and energy strategy, nuclear waste disposal, foreign policy, as well as other “wicked” problems on the local and state level.

Work Samples

From his book: 

Sessions

VizThink '08 Breakout Session - Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century

Links

Current Book: Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century
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Personal Website: http://www.stanford.edu/~rhorn/
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Horn