Background
Altman, Micah was born on August 31, 1967 in St. Louis.
Altman, Micah was born on August 31, 1967 in St. Louis.
Bachelor in Computer Science, Brown University, 1989. Bachelor in Political Philosophy, Brown University, 1989. Doctor of Philosophy in Social Science, California Institute of Technology, 1998.
Member technical staff Silicon Graphics, Mountain View, California, 1990—1992. Consultant alphabet Technology, Pasadena, 1993—1996. Associate director Harvard-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Data Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1997.
Research fellow Center for Basic Research in Social Science, Harvard University, 2001—2004. Senior scientist Institute for Quantitative Social Science, since 2005. Archival director Henry A Murray Archive, since 2007.
Member committee, data documentation initiative Interuniv. Consortium for Political Science Research, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2000—2002.
Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association for Computing Machinery, American Political Science Association (member council, program chair, awards chair, Best Paper on Representation 1997, Best Political Science Website 1999, Best Paper award 1998, Research Software award 2005, 2009), Sima Xi, Phi Beta Kappa.
2 children.