George Robertson is an ACM Fellow, a member of the CHI Academy, and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he manages an information visualization research group. Before coming to Microsoft, he was a Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC, working on 3D interactive animation interfaces for intelligent information access.  He was the architect of the Information Visualizer.  He has also been a Senior Scientist at Thinking Machines, a Senior Scientist at Bolt Beranek and Newman, and a faculty member of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie-Mellon University.  In the past, he has made significant contributions to machine learning, multimedia message systems, hypertext systems, operating systems, and programming languages.

Robertson serves on the Advisory Board of the Department of Homeland Security National Visualization and Analytics Center.  He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.  He is also an Associate Editor for the Journal of Information Visualization.  He has served on the Information Visualization Steering Committee since 1995.  He chaired UIST’97 and InfoVis 2004.