Micah Altman, Ph.D.
Director of Research & Head/Scientist, Program on Information Research -- MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Research field: Social Sciences - Library and Information Science
Social and Information Scientist
Publications
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Journal Article (33)
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Micah Altman, Michael P Mcdonald (2012) Redistricting Principles for the Twenty-First Century, 1-26. In Case-Western Law Review 62 (4).Download PDF (345.3 KB)
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Micah Altman, John Fox, Simon Jackman (2011) An Introduction to the Special Volume on Political Methodology, 1-5. In Journal Of Statistical Software 42 (1).
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Michael Altman, Michael P McDonald (2011) BARD: Better automated redistricting, 1-28. In Journal Of Statistical Software 42 (4).
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Micah Altman, Simon Jackman (2011) Nineteen Ways of Looking at Statistical Software, 1-12. In Journal Of Statistical Software 42 (2).Download PDF (331.65 KB)
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Micah Altman, Michael P. McDonald (2011) The Dawn of Do-It-Yourself Redistricting ?, 38-42. In Campaigns & Elections.Download PDF (231.34 KB)
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Micah Altman, M MCDONALD (2010) The Promise and Perils of Computers in Redistricting, 69–159. In Duke J Const Law Pub Poly.
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Micah Altman, Bryan Beecher, Jonathan Crabtree (2009) A Prototype Platform for Policy-Based Archival Replication, 44-47. In Against the Grain 21 (2).Download PDF (1.58 MB)
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Micah Altman (2009) Digital Preservation through Archival Collaboration: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences, 170-184. In American Archivist 72 (72, no. 1 (2009)).Download PDF (1.93 MB)
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Micah Altman, Jonathan Crabtree, Darrell Donakowski et al. (2009) Digital Preservation Through Archival Collaboration: The Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences, 170-184. In The American Archivist 72 (1).Download PDF (1.55 MB)
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Myron Gutmann, Mark Abrahamson, Margaret O Adams et al. (2009) From Preserving the Past to Preserving the Future: The Data-PASS Project and the challenges of preserving digital social science data, 315-337. In Library Trends 57 (3).
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Book (2)
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Kevin Novak, Micah Altman, Elana Broch et al. (2011) Communicating Science and Engineering Data in the Information Age. In National Academies Press.Download PDF (1.83 MB)
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Micah Altman, Jeff Gill, Michael McDonald (2003) Numerical issues in statistical computing for the social scientist. In John Wiley & Sons.
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Generic (1)
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G King, B Palmquist, G Adams et al. (1997) The Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990.
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Book Section (6)
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Micah Altman (2012) Data Citation in The Dataverse Network ®, Forthcoming. In Developing Data Attribution and Citation Practices and Standards: Report from an International Workshop.Download PDF (498.14 KB)Download DOCX (391.48 KB)
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Micah Altman, Michael P. McDonald (2012) Technology for Public Participation in Redistricting, Forthcoming. In Redistricting and Reapportionment in the West.Download PDF (1.02 MB)
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Micah Altman (2011) Data-PASS, 51-53. In New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation.Download PDF (792.76 KB)
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Micah Altman (2008) Digital Libraries, 152-162. In The Handbook of Public Information Technology.
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M Altman, J Gill, M P McDonald (2005) A Comparison of the Numerical Properties of EI Methods, 383-409. In Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies.
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Micah Altman Karin Mac Donald, Michael P McDonald (2005) Pushbutton Gerrymanders: How computers changed redistricting, 51-67. In Party Lines: Competition, Partisanship, and Congressional Redistricting.
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Conference Proceedings (6)
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Thu-mai Christian, Jonathan Crabtree, Nancy Mcgovern et al. (2011) Overview of SafeArchive : An Open-Source System for Automatic Policy-Based Collaborative Archival Replication. In iPres.Download PDF (1.82 MB)Download PDF (1.96 MB)
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Micah Altman, Jonathan Crabtree (2011) Using the SafeArchive System : TRAC-Based Auditing of LOCKSS, 165-170. In Archiving 2011.Download PDF (801.66 KB)
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Micah Altman (2008) A Fingerprint Method for Scientific Data Verification, 311-316. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Computing Sciences and Software Engineering 2007.Download PDF (237.81 KB)
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Jessica Hovater, Micah Altman an Micheal Krot, D Kiskis; M et al. (2002) Usability testing of the {Virtual Data Center}. In Second ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (in usability workshop).Download PDF (195.56 KB)
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Micah; Leonid Andreev; Mark Diggory; Elizabeth Kolster; Michael Krot; Gary King; Daniel Kiskis ; Akio Sone; Altman, Sidney Verba (2001) An Introduction to the Virtual Data Center Project and Software, 203-204. In Proceedings of the The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 01).
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Micah Altman, L Andreev, M Diggory et al. (2001) Overview of the virtual data center project and software, 203-204. In JCDL '01: Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries.
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Working Paper (1)
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Micah Altman, Michael P McDonald (2007) The Limitations of Quantitative Methods for Analyzing Gerrymanders: Indicia, Algorithms, Statistics and Revealed Preference.
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Report (1)
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Micah Altman, Thomas E Mann, Michael P. McDonald et al. (2010) Principles for Transparency and Public Participation in Redistricting.
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Thesis (1)
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Newspaper Article (2)
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Micah Altman (2012) Commentary : Micah Altman on How Participatory Technology Is Changing Redistricting. In TechPresident.Download PDF (1 MB)
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Micah Altman Michael McDonald (2010) Pulling Back the Curtain on Redistricting (Op-Ed), A17. In The Washington Post.
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Computer Program (7)
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Micah Altman, Michael McDonald, Andrew Jennings et al. (2011) DistrictBuilder.
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Micah Altman, Ed Bachman, Jonathan Crabtree et al. (2011) SafeArchive -- A System for Policy Based Archival Replication.
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Micah Altman (2008) UNF, software version 1.13.
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Micah Altman (2007) AIS: Ad Indicia Spectate, software version 1.0.
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Sidney Verba Altman, Micah; Leonid Andreev; Mark Diggory; Elizabeth Kolster; Michael Krot; Gary King; Daniel Kiskis ; Akio Sone (2000) The Virtual Data Center.
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Micah Altman, Jeff Gill, Michael McDonald Accuracy: Tools for testing and improving accuracy of statistical results.
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Encyclopedia Article (7)
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Micah Altman (2012) Gerrymandering, 493-495.
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Micah Altman (2011) Computational Modeling, 291-292.
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Micah Altman (2011) Heuristics, 723.
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Micah Altman (2011) Research Design, 1473-1474.
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Micah Altman (2004) Miller v Johnson, 286-287.
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Micah Altman (2004) Software, 569-579.
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Micah Altman (2004) Statistical Package, 1078-1080.
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Biographical Information
Dr. Micah Altman is Director of Research and Head/Scientist, Program on Information Science for the MIT Libraries, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Altman is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution. Prior to arriving at MIT, Dr. Altman served at Harvard University for fifteen years as the Associate Director of the Harvard-MIT Data Center, Archival Director of the Henry A. Murray Archive, and Senior Research Scientist in the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences.
Dr. Altman conducts research in social science, information science and research methods -- focusing on the intersections of information, technology, privacy, and politics; and on the dissemination, preservation, reliability and governance of scientific knowledge.
Dr. Altman conducts research in social science, information science and research methods -- focusing on the intersections of information, technology, privacy, and politics; and on the dissemination, preservation, reliability and governance of scientific knowledge.
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Professional Experience
2012 - Present
Director of Research & Head/Scientist, Program on Information Research -- MIT Libraries at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
2010 - Present
Non Resident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Dec 2007 - Dec 2011
Archival Director at Murray Research Archive, Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Dec 2006 - Feb 2012
Senior Research Scientist, IQSS at Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Dec 1999 - Dec 2010
Associate Director, Harvard-MIT Data Center at Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Jan 1990 - Aug 1992
Member of the Technical Staff (Software Developer, HPC) at Silicon Graphics
Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Education
Dec 1999 - Dec 2001
Harvard University
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow
Aug 1992 - Jun 1998
California Institute of Technology
in Pasadena, California, United States
Ph.D.
Ph.D.
Aug 1985 - Jun 1989
Brown University
in Providence, Rhode Island, United States
A.B., Computers Science; A.B. Political Philosohpy
A.B., Computers Science; A.B. Political Philosohpy
Contact Information
| E-mail: | |
| Fax: | (206) 338-4109 |
| Cellphone: | (585) 466-4224 |
| Google Talk: | micah.altman@gmail.com |
| Skype: | micah_altman |
| Webpage: | micahaltman.com |
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