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.
Dr. Altman has won the 2005 Best Political Science Software Award and the 1999 Best Political Science Research Website Award, given by the American Political Science Association (CMS & ITP), 1999 Outstanding Dissertation Award, given by the Western Political Science Association, for best dissertation in the Western region; and the 1998 Weaver Award, for best paper in representation and electoral systems, given by the American Political Science Association.
Dr. Altman is on the editorial board of The Journal of Information Technology and Politics and has served on the board of The International Encyclopedia of Political Science and The Journal of E-Government; as a guest editor for The Social Science Computer Review, and Journal of Statistical Software; as the head of Information Technology and Politics section of the Midwestern Political Science Association conference, and as the president of the Information Technology and Politics organized section of the American Political Science Association. He has been an invited speaker for many organizations, including the Kennedy School of Government, International Consortium for Political and Social Research, International Federation of Library Associations, National Conference of State Legislatures, and American Association of Geographers.
Dr. Altman earned a Ph.D. in Social Science from the California Institute of Technology. Prior to studying at CalTech, Dr. Altman worked as a software engineer in "Silicon Valley" developing software, courses, teaching and consulting on the subject of high-performance computing.
For more information about Dr. Altman's research see this recent article and Dr. Altman's publications.
Dr Altman's homepage can be found at http:/maltman.hmdc.harvard.edu/. You may also be interested in his full curriculum vitae.
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