Micah Altman

Micah Altman
    • Greater Boston Area, MA, United States
  • Work Director of Research, MIT Libraries
  • Industry Education
  • Website micahaltman.com
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  • About Micah Altman (micah_altman@alumni.harvard.edu, @drmaltman) 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, tec...
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