Robert E. Horn

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Robert E. Horn is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information. He has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and Sheffield (U.K.) universities.

Bob Horn is perhaps best known for Information Mapping, a method of information development called structured writing suited especially for technical communication. The Information Mapping method has been taught to over 300,000 technical writers around the world.

Today Horn is a political scientist with a special interest in policy communication, social learning, and knowledge management (especially in biotechnology and national security affairs).

His latest contribution to the presentation of information is called Visual Language. Horn has extended the use of Visual Language and Visual Analytics to processes for resolving Wicked Problems.

[edit] External References

• Horn, R. E., Mapping Hypertext: The Analysis, Organization, and Display of Knowledge for the Next Generation of On-Line Text and Graphics, Lexington Institute, 1988.
• Horn, R. E., Visual Language:Global Communication for the 21st Century, Xplane, 1998(2007).