With Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay and others he invented a number of Information Visualization techniques.
[1] Robertson has worked as a faculty member of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie-Mellon University, a senior scientist at Thinking Machines, and a senior scientist at Bolt Beranek and Newman.
[2] Before his current position at Microsoft he was principal scientist at Xerox PARC.
He is an ACM Fellow and manages a project on 3D User Interfaces and Information Visualization.
Robertson's research interests are "user interfaces, 3D interactive animation, 3D graphics, information visualization, intelligent information access, multimedia, and hypermedia",[2] see also: Connection Machine and Gender HCI Articles, a selection: