- Research Scientist, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Dr Micah Altman is a social and information scientist at MIT’s Center for Research in Equitable and Open Scholarship. Previously he served as Director of Research for the MIT Libraries, Head/Scientist for the Program on Information Science, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution; and at Harvard University 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.
For more information, see:
- Dr. Altman's Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micah_Altman
- Dr. Altman's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7382-6960
Experience
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–presentResearch Scientist, MIT Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Education
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1998California Insitute of Technology, Ph.D. Social Sciences
Honours
Laurence & Lynn Brown Democracy Medal, McCourtney Institute for Democracy; Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest, Tides Foundation
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- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
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