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Micah Altman (born August 31, 1967 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States), is an American social and information scientist who conducts research in Social science informatics.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Micah Altman )〕 He is known for his work on computational models of electoral districting and for his contributions to the research methodology of social sciences, especially data curation and statistical computing. ==Background== Micah Altman was born on August 31, 1967 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Altman studied Computer Science and Political Philosophy at the same time in Brown University, a private Ivy League research university located in Providence, Rhode Island. He graduated ''magna cum laude'' in both of his B.A. degrees in 1989. He went to graduate school at California Institute of Technology where he studied Social Science under Morgan Kousser and received a Ph.D. in 1998. Following that, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Gary King's research group at Harvard.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Biographical Sketch of Micah Altman )〕 In Summer of 1989, Altman started working at Sun Microsystems in Mountain View, California and worked as a Software Engineer. At Sun Microsystems, he developed a Windows systems components called NeWS using an object oriented postscript. He also worked with Silicon Graphics, Inc. as a technical staff from 1990 until 1992. At Silicon, he developed courses, benchmarks, course-ware, on-site consulting, performance computing, parallelization, real time software, and systems and network performance tuning. From 1993 until 1996, he worked as a high performance computing consultant at A-Z Technology.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Full Curriculum Vitae of Micah Altman )〕 From 1997 to 2012, he worked at Harvard University, managing administrative positions and conducting research. He was appointed Associate Director of Harvard - MIT Data Center, Archival Director of the ''Henry A. Murray archive'', and Director of data archiving and acquisition of Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He was also awarded a Research fellowship position at the Center for Basic Research in Social Science and worked as a Scientist at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=People at IQSS: Micah Altman )〕 In March 2012, Altman was appointed as Director of Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries and Head Scientist for the Program for Information Science, and as a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.〔 Altman is currently living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has two children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Micah Altman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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