Robert E. Horn
Visiting Scholar
Program on People, Computers, and Design
Center for the Study of Language and Information
Stanford University
tel./fax 415 775 7377
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Recent Speeches & Papers

• Analysis and Design of Information for Complex Social Messes-Case Study - UK Energy and Climate Change
  Policy, MediaX Stanford University, 2007 Part 1 (Powerpoint) Part 2 (Powerpoint)
• Interactive Mural of the History of the Ideas of Cybernetics and General Systems, 2006 (PDF)
• Connecting the Smudges-How Analytic Info-Murals May be of Help in Dealing with Social Messes. International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, 2005 (PDF)
• Interactive Visual Scenario for the the PanDefense 1.0 Conference (Avian Flu Mural) 2005 (PDF)
• What We Do Not Know: Using Information Murals to Portray Scientific Ignorance, 2005 (PDF)
• Thinking More Effectively And Strategically About the Long Term Management of Radioactive Waste-A Visual Analytics Approach, 2004 (PDF)
• To Think Bigger Thoughts Why The Human Cognome Project Requires Visual Language Tools, Talk given at the Converging Technologies for Human Performance (Nano, Bio, Info, Cogno) Conference, 2003. (Powerpoint)
• Knowledge Mapping for Complex Social Messes
  A presentation to the "Foundations in the Knowledge Economy"
  at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, July 16, 2001 (PDF)
• Visual Language and Converging Technologies in the Next 10-15 Years (and Beyond)
  A paper prepared for the National Science Foundation Conference on Converging Technologies (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno) for Improving Human Performance Dec. 3-4, 2001 (PDF)
• Beginning to Conceptualize the Human Cognome Project A paper prepared for the National Science Foundation Conference on Converging Technologies (Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno) Draft 4/30/02 (PDF)
• Conceptual map of a vision of the future of visual language research. (PDF)
• Think Link, Invent, Implement, and Collaborate! Think Open! Think Change! Think Big!
  Keynote Speech Honoring Douglas Engelbart on Doug Engelbart Day
  in the state of Oregon, at Oregon State University, January 24, 2002 (PDF)
• Some of Philosophy's Next Jobs
  This talk was delivered at the First European Conference on Computers and Philosophy
  at the University of Glasgow, March 28, 2003. (Powerpoint)
• What Kinds of Writing Have a Future?
  Speech prepared in connection with receiving Lifetime Achievement Award
  by the Association of Computing Machinery SIGDOC, October 22, 2001 (PDF)
• The Representation of Meaning: Visual Information Design as a Practical and Fine Art
  (A speech prepared for the InfoArcadia Exhibit, the Stroom Center for the Visual Arts,
  The Hague, The Netherlands, April 3, 2000) (html)
  

Current Projects

New Maps for Public Policy Project

• Project: Mental Health Services Dynamics & Dilemmas Map (PDF)
• Project: National Missile Defense (PDF)
• Project: Alameda Long Term Care Integration: Problems and Issues Map (PDF)
• The Struggle of Narratives--Attempting to Visualize It
• Discriminate Force--Attempting to Visualize It
  
  

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