Robert Scott Thompson (born 1959, California) is an American composer of ambient, instrumental and electroacoustic music.
His primary teachers include Bernard Rands, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa and F. Richard Moore.
Over the past decade, he has become increasingly well known internationally for his instrumental and computer music works and also for his many recordings which have been broadcast worldwide.
On the technical side, he has collaborated with Micro Technology Unlimited, and assisted in the development of DNOISE – a real-time digital audio noise reduction software application.
He is a contributing author for two books, Computer Music Techniques for the Electronic Musician and Software Synthesis, Sound Design and Programming, both by Dr. Eduardo Reck Miranda and published by Focal Press in 1998 and 2002 respectively.