E-mail: Micah_Altman@harvard.edu (PGP Public Key)   Telephone: (617) 496-3847 Fax: (425) 740-0715   Mailing Address: Harvard-MIT Data Center Institute for Quantitative Social Science Center for Government and International Studies 1737 Cambridge Street, Room 325 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138   [You may be interested in directions and maps]

Micah Altman (Ph.D. California Institute of Technology) is Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and Archival Director of the Henry A. Murray Research Archive.

Dr. Altman conducts research in social science informatics, social science research methodology, and American politics, focusing on the intersection of information, technology, and politics; and on the dissemination, preservation, and reliability of scientific knowledge. His current research interests include survey quality; computationally reliable and efficient statistical methods; the collection, sharing, citation and preservation of research data; the creation and analysis of networks of scientific knowledge; and computational methods of redistricting.

Dr. Altman's work has been recognized by the Supreme Court, Forbes, and by Who's Who in America. His extensively-reviewed book, Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist, corrects common computational errors made across the range of social sciences. And his over thirty-five publications and five open-source software packages span informatics, statistics, computer science, political science, and other social-science disciplines.

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