Paul Kahn

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Paul Kahn is an information architect, teacher and writer. Kahn began working with text processing systems as a production editor and systems analyst at Harvard University in 1977, and later as an application specialist for Atex, Inc. From 1985-1994 he was a member of the research staff at Brown University's Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS). He co-founded the information design studio Dynamic Diagrams (d/D) with Krzysztof Lenk in 1991. When d/D was acquired by Ingenta, he served as Chief Technology Officer. After moving to France in 2001, he founded the information architecture studio Kahn+Associates, where he serves as managing director.
He taught interactive design at Rhode Island School of Design from 1994-2001, and since moving to France has taught at Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts; École nationale supérieure des Télécommunications; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; and at Media Lab, Aalto University, Helsinki (Finland).
He is the co-author of Mapping Web Sites (with Krzysztof Lenk), which since its appearance in 2001 has been translated into French, German, Korean, and Spanish. He is the editor/publisher of NEW Magazine, international visual & verbal communications.

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Kahn, Paul and Moisand, Julia (2009): Patterns that Connect: the Value of Mapping Complex Data Networks. In Information Design Journal, 17 (3)

Isometric overview diagrams can be used to synthesize and present complex information in a form similar to a geographic atlas.

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Kahn, Paul (2009): Designing Hypertext is an Intellectual Task. In: Schuller, Gerlinde "Designing Universal Knowledge: The World as Flatland - Report 1". Lars Müller Publishers

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Kahn, Paul (2008): Excavating Information. In: Baer, Kim and Vacarra, Jill "Information Design Workbook: Graphic approaches, solutions, and inspiration". Rockport Publishers

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Kahn, Paul and Pepe, Guiseppe Attoma (2005): Mendel Museum of Genetics. In: Japan, Institute for Information Design "Information Design Source Book". Birkhäuser Basel

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Kahn, Paul, Lenk, Krzysztof and Kaczmarek, Piotr (2002): Applications of isometric projection for visualizing web sites. In Information Design Journal, 1 (3)

A detailed explanation of how isometric diagrams can be used for describing web sites.

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Kahn, Paul and Lenk, Krzysztof (2001): Mapping Websites: Digital Media Design. Rockport Publishers
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Kahn, Paul (1995): Visual Cues for Local and Global Coherence in the WWW. In Communications of the ACM, 38 (8) pp. 67-69

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Haan, Bernard J., Kahn, Paul, Riley, Victor A., Coombs, James H. and Meyrowitz, Norman K. (1992): IRIS Hypermedia Services. In Communications of the ACM, 35 (1) pp. 36-51

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Nyce, James M. and Kahn, Paul (1989): Innovation, pragmaticism, and technological continuity: Vannevar Bush's memex. In JASIST - Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 40 (3) pp. 214-220

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Publication statistics

Publication period:1989-2009
Publication count:9
Number of co-authors:9



Productive colleagues

Paul Kahn's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

James M. Nyce:7
James H. Coombs:5
Norman K. Meyrowitz:4


Collaboration count

Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Krzysztof Lenk:2
Norman K. Meyrowitz:1
Julia Moisand:1

 

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