George G. Robertson is an American

information visualization Information is an abstract concept that refers to that which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level information pertains to the interpretation of that which may be sensed. Any natural process that is not completely random, ...

expert and senior researcher, Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group,

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...

Research. With

Stuart K. Card Stuart K. Card (born December 21, 1943), an American researcher and retired senior research fellow at Xerox PARC, is considered to be one of the pioneers of applying human factors in human–computer interaction. With Jock D. Mackinlay, George G. ...

Jock D. Mackinlay Jock D. Mackinlay (born August 16, 1952) is an American information visualization expert and Vice President of Research and Design at Tableau Software. With Stuart K. Card, George G. Robertson and others he invented a number of Information Visual ...

and others he invented a number of

Information Visualization Information is an abstract concept that refers to that which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level information pertains to the interpretation of that which may be sensed. Any natural process that is not completely random, ...

techniques.Keynote Panel Information Visualization - Where are We and Where Do We Go From Here?
Proceedings Infovis 1996. Retrieved 6 July 2008.

Biography

Robertson has worked as a faculty member of the Computer Science Department at

Carnegie-Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

, a senior scientist at

Thinking Machines Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer and artificial intelligence (AI) company, founded in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1983 by Sheryl Handler and W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis to turn Hillis's doctoral work at the Massachuset ...

, and a senior scientist at

Bolt Beranek and Newman Raytheon BBN (originally Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc.) is an American research and development company, based next to Fresh Pond in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. In 1966, the Franklin Institute awarded the firm the Frank P. Brown ...

.George G. Robertson (2004)
Short bio
Retrieved 6 July 2008. Before his current position at Microsoft he was principal scientist at

Xerox PARC PARC (Palo Alto Research Center; formerly Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, the company was originally a division of Xero ...

. Since 1996 he is a principal researcher in the Visualization and Interaction group at Microsoft Research. He is an

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and manages a project on 3D User Interfaces and Information Visualization. He is associate editor of the ''Journal of Information Visualization''. Robertson's research interests are "user interfaces, 3D interactive animation, 3D graphics, information visualization, intelligent information access, multimedia, and hypermedia", see also:

Connection Machine A Connection Machine (CM) is a member of a series of massively parallel supercomputers that grew out of doctoral research on alternatives to the traditional von Neumann architecture of computers by Danny Hillis at Massachusetts Institute of Techno ...

and

Gender HCI Gender HCI is a subfield of human-computer interaction that focuses on the design and evaluation of interactive systems for humans. The specific emphasis in gender HCI is on variations in how people of different genders interact with computers. Ex ...

Publications

Articles, a selection: * 1972. "XCRIBL - A Hardcopy Scan Line Graphics System for Document Generation". With Raj Reddy, W. Broadley, Lee D. Erman, R. Johnsson, J. Newcomer, and J. Wright. In: ''Inf. Process. Lett.'' 1(6): 246-251. * 1978. "An Extensible File System for Hydra". With Guy T. Almes. In: ''ICSE 1978'': 288-294. * 1981. "Accent: A Communication Oriented Network Operating System Kernel". With: Richard F. Rashid, in: ''SOSP 1981'': 64-75. * 1987. "Parallel Implementation of Genetic Algorithms in a Classifier Rystem". in: ''Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Genetic Algorithms, July 1987'': 140-147. * 1988. "Population Size in classifier Systems". in: ''ML 1988'': 142-152. * 1989. "The cognitive coprocessor architecture for interactive user interfaces". With S. K. Card, and J. D. Mackinlay. In: ''Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology'', pages 10–18. ACM Press, Nov 1989. * 1991. "Cone Trees: Animated 3D Visualizations of Hierarchical Information". With Jock D. Mackinlay and Stuart K. Card. In: Robertson, Scott P., Olson, Gary M. and Olson, Judith S. (eds.) Proceedings of the ACM CHI 91 Human Factors in Computing Systems Conference April 28 - June 5, 1991, New Orleans, Louisiana. pp. 189–194. * 1993. "Information Visualization Using 3D Interactive Animation". With Stuart K. Card, and Jock D. Mackinlay. In: ''Communications of the ACM'', 36(4), April 1993. pp. 57–71. * 1993. "The document lens". With J. D. Mackinlay. In: ''Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology''. ACM Press, Nov 1993.

References

External links

George G. Robertson
Homepage at Microsoft research.

at www.informatik.uni-trier.de. {{DEFAULTSORT:Robertson, George G. Living people Carnegie Mellon University alumni Human–computer interaction researchers Information visualization experts Year of birth missing (living people) Scientists at PARC (company)