Micah Altman
Curriculum Vitae

Harvard-MIT Data Center, Institute for Quantitative Social Science,
Center for Government and International Studies
1737 Cambridge Street N325
Harvard University, Cambridge , MA 02138

Phone: (617) 625-7578 Fax: (509) 562-0658
E-mail: Micah_Altman@harvard.edu
URL: http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu/micah_altman
Education Harvard University Cambridge, MA
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Government 		1999-2001
  California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA
Ph.D., Social Sciences 		1998 
  Brown University Providence, RI
B.A., Magna Cum Laude (Highest Distinction), Computer Science
B.A., Magna Cum Laude (Highest Distinction), Ethics and Political Philosophy 		1989
   
Honors & Awards Best Research Software Award, American Political Science Association (ITP) for the VDC System 2005
  Listed in (Marquis) Who's Who in America, 57th, 58th, 63rd Edition 2003-2004,2009
  Annual Meeting Enrichment Fund Award, Association of American Geographers 2001
  Best Political Science Research Website, American Political Science Association (CMS) (for The Record of American Democracy website and the Harvard-MIT Data Center website) 1999
  Outstanding Dissertation Award (best political science dissertation), Western Political Science Association 1999
  Weaver Award (best paper presented at previous meeting), Representation and Electoral Systems Section, American Political Science Association 1998
  Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Harvard-MIT Research Training Group in Political Economy 1996-7
  John Randolf Haynes and Dora Haynes Fellowship 1995-6
  Anna and James McDonnell Memorial Fellowship 1994-5
  Phi Beta Kappa 1989
  Sigma Xi 1989
   
Research Positions Senior Research Scientist
Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
 
Associate Director
Harvard-MIT Data Center, Harvard University
 
Archival Director
Henry R. Murray Research Archive, Harvard University
 
Director, Virtual Data Center Project
Harvard University Library, Harvard University
 
Research Associate
Center for Basic Research in Social Science, Harvard University

· Directed up to 16 FTE, including middle-managers, statistical consultants, researchers, and technical staff, to provide IT and research support, develop new research computing software, services and facilities, at the world's largest academic social science data center
· Directly managed teams of software developers and Linux administrators
· Developed grant proposals; managed projects, products, and budget
· Represented HMDC to wide range internal and external stakeholders
· Expert consultant and mentor for staff in: statistical analysis, software architecture, software development, debugging, documentation, and systems and network administration
· Conducted innovative research in digital libraries, statistical methodology, and social science that enhanced HMDC products, infrastructure, and

2006-Present

1998-Present

2007-Present

1999-2006


2001-2006
   
Other Positions Consultant
A-Z Technology (Sole Proprietor)

· Consulted for SGI, Cray Research, Silicon Works, Silicon Studios

 1993-6
  Member of the Technical Staff
Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA

· Developed courses, benchmarks, courseware, on-site consulting, for high performance computing, parallelization, real time software, systems and network performance tuning.

 1990-2
  Software Developer
Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA

  · Developed Windows Systems (NEWS) components, in OO-Postscript

1989
(Summer)

   
Dissertation Title: "Districting Principles and Democratic Representation"

Winner of Best Dissertation Award, Western Political Science Association

Committee: J. Morgan Kousser (chair), R. Michael Alvarez, D. Roderick Kiewiet, Scott Page		 1998
   
Books and Monographs Managing Social Science Research Data (with Charles Franklin), Chapman & Hall - CRC.

2008
(Under Contract)
  Numerical Issues in Statistical Computing for the Social Scientist (with Jeff Gill and Michael P. McDonald), John Wiley and Sons.

[ Reviewed (favorably) in Journal of the American Statistical Association, Technometrics, Choice, ACM Computing Reviews, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of Statistical Software, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. ]

2003
(Hardcover)
2004
(E-book)
   
Peer-Reviewed Publications "Open Research Questions on Information and Technology in Global and Domestic Politics -- Beyond 'E-'" , PS: Political Science and Politics 2008
(Forthcoming)
"A Fingerprint Method for Verification of Scientific Data" in , Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering, (Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering 2007) , Springer Verlag. 2008
(Forthcoming)
"Accuracy: Tools for Accurate and Reliable Statistical Computing" (with Jeff Gill and Michael P. McDonald) , Journal of Statistical Software
[Abstract in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics] 		2007
  "Digital Libraries" in The Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology, David Garson and Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Editors, IGI Global. 2007
"Measuring the difference between white voting and polling on interracial marriage " (with Philip Klinkner) , Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 2006
"Pushbutton Gerrymanders? How computing has changed redistricting ", in Party Lines: Competition, Partisanship and Congressional Redistricting, Bruce Cain and Thomas Mann, eds. Washington, DC: Brookings Press.
[This chapter reviewed positively in the Election Law Journal, 2007, 6(2) 322-28] 		2005
"Current Research in Voting, Elections and Technology", Social Science Computer Review: 23(3) (with Gary Klass) 2005
  "From Crayons to Computers: The Evolution of Computer Use in Redistricting", Social Science Computer Review: 23(3)334-346 (with Karin Mac Donald and Michael P. McDonald) 2005
  "A Comparison of the Numerical Properties of EI Methods", in King, Gary, O. Rosen and M. Tanner (eds.)
Ecological Inference: New Methodological Strategies (with Jeff Gill and Michael P. McDonald) 		2004
"Replication with Attention to Numerical Accuracy",
Political Analysis (with Michael P. McDonald)
[Reprinted in W. Paul Vogt, Selecting Research Methods, London: Sage Publications, 2008] 		2003 (reprinted 2008)
  "A Review of JMP 4.03 with Special Attention to its Numerical Accuracy",
The American Statistician. 56: 72-76.		 2002
  "A Bayesian Approach to Detecting Electoral Manipulation",
Political Geography 22(1) 39-48 		2002
  "A Digital Library for the Dissemination and Replication of Quantitative Social Science Research",
Social Science Computer Review 19(4):458-71 (with Leonid Andreev, Mark Diggory, Michael Krot, Gary King, Daniel Kiskis , Akio Sone, Sidney Verba) 		2001
  "Choosing Reliable Statistical Software."
PS: Political Science & Politics 24(3): 681-8 (with Michael P. McDonald) 		2001
  "An Introduction to the Virtual Data Center Project and Software"
Proceedings of the The First ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , ACM Press: 203-4. (with Leonid Andreev, Mark Diggory, Michael Krot, Gary King, Daniel Kiskis, Elizabeth Kolster, Akio Sone, Sidney Verba) 		2001
  "Modeling the Effect of Mandatory District Compactness on Partisan Gerrymanders," Political Geography 17(8):989-1012
(Cited by the Supreme Court in Vieth v. Jubelirer (2004)) 		1998
  "Traditional Districting Principles, Judicial Myths vs. Reality"
Social Science History 22(2):159-200 		1998
  "Is Automation the Answer: The Computational Complexity of Automated Redistricting," Rutgers Computer and Law Technology Journal 23 (1), 81-142 1997
   
Professional Publications "Research Methods" in The International Encyclopedia of Political Science, G.T. Kurian Editor, CQ Press/APSA. 2008
(Forthcoming)
  "Computational Models" in The International Encyclopedia of Political Science, G.T. Kurian Editor, CQ Press/APSA. 2008
(Forthcoming)
  "A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data" (with Gary King)D-Lib 13 (1). 2007
  "Overview of a Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data", (with Gary King) in IASSIST Quarterly 2006
  "How to Set a Random Clock" (Remarks on Earnest (2006), in Forum section)PS: Political Science and Politics 39(4): 795. 2006
  "Miller v. Johnson", in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court, David Schultz (ed.), Facts on File. 2005
  (Review of) Point, Click, and Vote (by R. Michael Alvarez and Thad E. Hall), Journal of E-Government 2004
  "Software", in Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, ed., Academic Press.
[This entry was reviewed favorably in Library & Information Science Research 2006, 28: 331-334] 		2004
  "Statistical Packages" , in Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Michael Lewis-Beck, A.E. Bryman and T.F. Liao (eds.), Sage Press. 2003
  "Open Source Software for Libraries: from Greenstone to the Virtual Data Center and Beyond", Iassist Quarterly 25: 5-12 2002
  "Usability Testing of the Virtual Data Center", Usability Workshop at Second ACM+IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries [Workshop summarized in DLIB Magazine 8(9) with link to on-line conference proceedings.] (by Jessica Hovater, Michael Krot, D. Kiskis, M. Altman, and I. Holland) 2002
  (Review of) Race, Redistricting, and Representation : The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts (by David T. Canon), American Political Science Review 94: 717 2000
  (Review of) Legal Battles That Shaped the Computer Industry (by Lawrence D. Graham), The Law and Politics Book Review 10(3): 217-220 2000
  (Dataset and Web-site) "The Record of American Democracy, 1984-1990," Harvard University, Cambridge, MA [producer], Ann Arbor, MI: ICPSR [distributor]. (with Gary King, Bradley Palmquist; Greg Adams, Kenneth Benoit, Claudine Gay, Jeffrey B. Lewis, Russ Mayer, and Eric Reinhardt)
Winner of the 1999 APSA Best Research Website Award 		1997
   
Open Source Software Packages Altman, Micah, Leonid Andreev, Mark Diggory, Dan Kiskis, and Akio Sone The Virtual Data Center: A digital library system. Available through Sourceforge.) Winner of the American Political Science Association's Best Research Software Award

2001-2006
Altman, Micah, Jeff Gill and Michael McDonald, Accuracy: An R-module for accurate statistical computing Available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and The Compreshensive S Archive Network. (Peer-reviewed in Journal of Statistical Software)

 2004-Present
Altman, Micah, and Michael McDonald, BARD: Better Automated redistricting Available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network

 2007
Altman, Micah, urn: An R (and S-Plus) module for repeated resampling without replacement. Available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network and The Compreshensive S Archive Network.

 2004, 2006
Altman, Micah, UNF: Packages for computing Universal Numeric Fingerprints in R, S-Plus, Stata, and SAS. Available through The Comprehensive R Archive Network, The Compreshensive S Archive Network.

2004-Present
Grants & Awards Library of Congress " The Digital Social Science Acquisitions and Preservation Partnership" ($2,037,595), HMDC Project Director, (under PI's Myron Gutmann, Gary King) 2005-8
  "A Feasible Uniform Standard for Deep Citation of Social Science Data", National Science Foundation (Co-Investigator with James Alt and Gary King) ($805,102). 2001-3
  An Operational Social Science Digital Library, National Science Foundation, (Co-Investigator/Director, with Gary King, Sidney Verba, Dale Flecker, Nancy Cline ) ($2,400,000) 1999-2003
  "Data Documentation Initiative Beta Test", Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, (Co-Investigator with Gary King, Michael McDonald, Michael Ting) ($1,750) 1999
  Intel Corporation, "Geospatial Liboratory Project" (Co-Investigator with Gary King, Susan Lee, Paul Bergen, David Cobb, Arlene Olivero, Thomas Parris, and William Wei) ($150,000) 1998-2000
   
Professional Service/Activities Various Positions, Information Technology and Politics Section, APSA:   President -- 2003-4; Program Chair -- 2002-3, 2004-5 (acting); Chair, Research/Teaching Web Site Award Committees -- 2000-1, Software Awards Committee 2005-7; Council Member -- 1999-2005 1999-Present
  Program Committee; Session Chair, Social SciencesUseR! 2008 2008
  Advisory Board Timescapes Archive (University of Leeds) 2007-Present
  Awards Committee, Research Software Society for Political Methodology 2008-2009
  Program Committee YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle in the United States Workshop (U. Mass., Amherst) 2008-2009
 
  Coordinator, Working Group on on Information and Technology in Global and Domestic Politics American Political Science Association 2007
  Section Head, Information Technology & Politics Midwest Political Science Association 2006-2007
  Editorial Board, Journal of Information Technology and Politics 2006-Present
  Editorial Board, Journal of E-Government 2004-2006
  Guest Editor, Journal of Statistical Software 2006-2007
  Contributing Editor, International Encyclopedia of Political Science 2006-2008
  Guest Editor, Social Science Computer Review 2004-2005
  Postgraduate-Scholar Sponsor: D. Brancati (2004), M. New (2003), Y. Mansury (2002), A. Sone (1999) , A. Asgeirdottir (2000), P. Brandt (1999), B. Tamas (1999), A. Tarar (2002) 1999-Present
  Committee Member, Data Documentation Initiative Committee/Technical Working Group, ICPSR 1999-2003
  Review Panelist: National Science Foundation, ITR 2000
  Invited Expert Panelist, Project on Voting and Elections, Rappaport Institute, Kennedy School of Government 2001
     
  Consulting:  
  Gerson-Lerhman Group Councils 2007-present
  Bio-Era (Bio Economic Research Associates)
 2006
  Texas Legislative Council (Redistricting Services); 2000
     
  External Reviewer:
American Journal of Political Science; American Politics Research; American Political Science Review; Chapman Hall (CRC); Computational Statistics and Data Analysis; Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); Government and Policy (Environment and Planning, C); Idea Group Publishing; International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CIS2E); John Wiley & Sons; Journal of E-Government; Journal of Election Law; Journal of Information Technology and Politics; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Politics; Journal of Statistical Software; Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation (KSEF); Library Trends; Management Science; National Institutes of Health (NIH), SBIR; National Science Foundation (NSF), Methodology, Measurement and Statistics (MMS) Program; NSF Information Technology Research (ITR) program; NSF Behavioral and Cognitive Science (BCS) program; Political Analysis; Political Geography; State Politics and Policy Quarterly; Social Science Computer Review; Theoretical Politics 		1999-Present
   
Professional Affiliations ACM, American Statistical Association, APSA, IEEE, MWPA, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, PSA, WPSA
   
Invited Lectures and Panels Invited Participant, "Cyberinfrastructure and University Policy"
Sponsored by NSF, Science Commons, and Ewing Marion Kauffman FoundationWashington		 2008
Invited Poster, "Building Effective Virtual Organizations"
Sponsored by the NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure, Washington		 2008
Invited Panelist, "Social Science Computing & Technology on Campus"
Annual ICPSR Organizational Representative Meeting, Ann Arbor		 2007
"Digital Libraries and Workflow"
Invited Talk,"Social Science Data and Scholarly Workflows"Workshop on Scientific and Scholarly Workflow Cyberinfrastructure (sponsored by Mellon Foundation and NSF) 		2007
"Teaching with Online Data "
Invited Speaker, Web Pedagogies Monthly Seminar: Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University 		2005
"The Virtual Data Center 1.0 "
Invited Session: CNI Task Force, Portland, OR		 2004
  "E-Rulemaking: New Directions for Technology and Regulation"
Invited Panelist, Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government		 2003
  "'The Digital Dichotomy of the Virtual Veritas' : An Introduction to the Harvard Virtual Data Center"
(with Mark Diggory) Invited Lecture for the Harvard ABCD Committee (Harvard University) 		2002
  "Political Science, Ecological Inference and Numerical Accuracy"
Invited Lecture for the Interactive Television Program in Advanced Political Methodology (University of Illinois, Chicago; University of Wisconsin, Madison; University of Minnesota; Ohio-State University) 		2002
  Invited Panelist, "Innovations in Web-Based Data Exploration"
Annual ICPSR Organizational Representative Meeting, Ann Arbor		 2001
  "Providing Library Data Services Using the Virtual Data Center" (with Heather McMullen and Michael Krot) Invited Lecture,
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) , Boston 		2001
  "Commentary on Manipulating Maps and Winning Elections" , Invited Discussant,
Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), New York, N.Y. 		2001
  Invited Panelist, First FASTER Metadata Expert Workshop, Voorburg, Netherlands 2000
  "Measuring Compactness", Invited Lecture, National Conference of State Legislatures, 25th Meeting, Indianapolis 1999
 

"Expert Meeting on Metadata Harvesting "
(Invited Expert), Andrew W Mellon Foundation, New York, NY

2000
  Invited Panelist, Panel Data Collection and Dissemination Workshop, Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard U. 1999
  "The Geospatial Libororatory Project", Invited Lecture, GIS Colloquium Series, Harvard U, Cambridge 1999
  "Commentary"
Invited Lecture. Bringing Democracy closer to voters -- Delimitation of Single Member Constituencies, Lisbon 		1999
 

"Workshop on Social Science Data Archives"
Invited Panelist , Digital Library Federation, Princeton, NJ

1999
   
Courses and Seminars Taught
  • Grant Writing Workshop (Professional Development Seminar; Government Department, Harvard U.)
  • Research Funding: Getting Started, Getting Funded (APSA Annual Meeting Short Course )
  • Digital Curation (Guest Lecturer, UNC, SILS)
  • Methods for Large-Scale Statistical Computing in the Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences
    (MIT IAP Short Course)
  • Topics in Quantitative Methods (Gov2002, Harvard) (Guest Lecturer)
  • An Overview of Pragmatic Statistical Computing: faster analyses, larger scale, and more accurate results
    (Short Course, APSA)
  • Creating a Politics Data Center
    (Short Course, APSA)
  • Archiving, Cataloging and Distributing Data
    (Short Course, IASSIST/IFDO)
  • Real-time programming
    (Author & 40 hour course )
  • Parallel Processing
    (Author & 40 hour course) 
  • Advanced Systems (and Network) Administration
    (Author & , 40 hour course) 
  • Network Administration
    (40 hour course) 
  • Introduction to Microeconomics
    (Teaching Assistant, 3 hour semester course) 
  • Environmental Regulation and Management
    (Redesigned Course w/ Instructor, Teaching Assistant, 3 hour semester course) 
  • Introduction to Software Engineering
    (Teaching Assistant, 3 hour semester course) 
  • Introduction to Scientific Computing
    (Teaching Assistant, 3 hour semester course)
Selected Conference Activity

"Custodians of Culture, Architects of Archives" (panelist), Library of Congress - Annual NDIIP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C.

 2008
(Forthcoming)

"Access to Distributed Collections: Issues and Solutions for Interoperability" (panelist), Library of Congress - Annual NDIIP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C.

 2008
(Forthcoming)
 

"BARD: Better Automated Redistricting" (with Michael McDonald )
UseR!, Dortmund

 2008
(Forthcoming)
 

Invited Participant
Political Methodology Meeting, Ann Arbor

 2008
(Forthcoming)
"Research Funding Opportunities and Data Resources"
Invited Poster Session,American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Boston 		2008
(Forthcoming)
  Towards a Data Network for Integrated Social Science Research Digital Library Federation Spring Forum, Minneapolis 2008
  Virtual Observatories and Research Collaboratories: Quantitative Social Science American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston 2008
  Georefencing in the Social Sciences Harvard CGA Georeferencing Workshop, Harvard U, Cambdridge 2008
  Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences Society of American Archivists, Chicago 2007
 

Faculty Poster
Political Methodology Meeting, Penn State

 2007
 

"Social Science Data Preservation and Dissemination" (poster)
Advancing NSDL Networks -- NSDL 2007 Annual Meeting, Arlington, V.A.

 2007
 

"Legal Agreements in Network and Consortia" (invited panelist and chair), Library of Congress - Annual NDIIP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C.

 2007
 

"Preserving Social Science Research Data"
American Library Association, Washington, D.C.

 2007
 

"Approaches to Data Dissemination and Preservation"
IASSIST 2007 , Montreal

2007
 

"Data-PASS: Collaborating to Preserve At-Risk Data" (Panel)
IASSIST 2007 , Montreal

2007
Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences: A Model for Collaboration (with A. Pienta, D. Donakowski, M. Maynard, J. Crabtree) DigCcurr07, Chapel Hill 2007
 

"Better Automated Redistricting" (with Michael McDonald)
MPSA, Chicago

 2007
 

Discussant: "Using Benford's Law and Randomization to Detect Election Fraud"
Political Methodology Meeting, Davis

 2006
 

"R Modules for Accurate and Reliable Statistical Computing" (with Jeff Gill and Michael McDonald )
UseR!, Vienna

 2006
 

Panel: "New Standards in Statistics and Data Citations" (Co-Organizers with Gaetan Drolet)
Paper: "A Proposed Standard for the Scholarly Citation of Quantitative Data" (with Gary King)
IASSIST, Ann Arbor

 2006
"Research and Data Support "
Invited Poster Session,American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Montreal 		2006
 

"How Computing Has Changed Redistricting " (with Michael McDonald and Karin Mac Donald
(APSA Theme Panel) APSA, Washington, D.C.

 2005
 

Chair "Participation in the Internet Era: New Technologies, New Hopes" APSA, Washington, D.C.

 2005
 

"Data-PASS Technical Architecture" Library of Congress - NDIIP Partners Meeting, Washington, D.C.

 2005
 

(Panelist) "Data Archives: Building a Partnership to Preserve the Future of Social Research"
Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia

 2005
 

Invited Participant.
22nd Annual Summer Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, Tallahassee

 2005
 

"TheDataWeb/VDC Integration " (with Cavan Capps)
IASSIST/IFDO, Edinburgh

 2005
 

"Pushbutton Gerrymanders " (with Michael McDonald and Karin MacDonald)
MPSA, Chicago

 2005
 

"An Overview of Pragmatic Statistical Computing: faster analyses, larger scale, and more accurate results " (Short Course)
APSA, Chicago

 2004
 

"The Information Power Brokers: The Politics and Paradox of Message Control, Administrative Reform, and Transparency" (Chair)
APSA, Chicago

 2004
 

"A Sound Method for Determining Intent in Redistricting"
Polmeth, 21ST Annual Summer Meeting of the Society for Political Methodology, Stanford

 2004
 

"A Computation-Intensive Method for Evaluating Intent in Redistricting" (with Michael McDonald)
MPSA, Chicago

 2004
 

"Persistent Identifiers for Data"
IASSIST/CAPDU, Ottawa

2003
 

"R^5"
Ecological Inference Conference, Harvard U. (with Jeff Gill & Michael McDonald)

 2002
  "Open Source Software for Libraries"
Annual Meeting of IASSIST (IFDO) , Storrs, CT		 2002
  "Is the 'Old Racism' Really Dead? An Ecological Inference Analysis of Anti-Miscegenation Referenda in South Carolina and Alabama" (with Phillip Klinkner)
Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association (WPSA) , Long Beach		 2002
  "Practical Maximum Likelihood"
(with Michael P. McDonald and Jefferson Gill) Summer Methods Conference, Atlanta 		2001
  "Creating a Politics Data Center with the Virtual Data Center System"
(Short Course) American Political Science Association (APSA), San Francisco 		2001
  "Archiving, Cataloging and Distributing Data with the Virtual Data Center" (Short Course) International Association for Social Science Information Service & Technology/International Federation of Data Organizations (IASSIST/IFDO), Amsterdam 2001
  "Dividing Light From Dark: Statistical Tests of Racial Gerrymanders"
Midwestern Political Science Association Meeting (MWPSA), Chicago 		2000
 

"Statistical Tests for Gerrymandering"
 (with Michael P. McDonald)
"Information Technology and Political Science Research" (discussant)
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA),Washington, D.C.

2000
  "Digital Library Support for Sharing and Replication: A Report on the Virtual Data Center", Annual Meeting of IASSIST, Chicago 2000
  "Practical Maximum Likelihood"
(with Jeff Gill & Michael P. McDonald), Mid-West Political Science Association, Chicago 		2000
  "The Robustness of Statistical Abstractions: A Look Under the Hood"
,(with Michael P. McDonald) Paper presented at the 1999 Annual Society For Political Methodology and the APSA Political Methodology Section Summer 1999 Conference, College Station, Texas. 		1999
 

"Sharing Social Science Data on the Internet"
Paper & Poster
"Cutting Edge Technology in Teaching and Research" (discussant)
APSA, Boston, Sep. 7-9

 1998
  "The Virtual Data Center Development Project" Paper Presented at IASSIST, New Haven, May 18-21. 1998
  "How to Predict the Partisan Consequences of Redistricting -- Better "
Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL April 23-25. 		1998
 

"Do Traditional Districting Principles Matter?"
American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C. August 27-31.

 1997
  "What Are Traditional Districting Principles,"
Annual Meeting of the SSHA, Chicago, IL, November 16-19. 		1995
  "The Consistency and Effectiveness of Mandatory District Compactness Rules," Midwestern Political Science Association, Chicago, IL. 1995
  "Predicting the Effects of Mandatory District Compactness," Western Political Science Association, Portland, Oregon. 1995
   
Technical Skills General technical proficiencies
  • Expert in digital libraries.
  • Expert in digital preservation.
  • Expert in performance profiling and optimization.
  • Expert in statistical analysis
  • Proficient skills in numerical benchmarking.
  • Proficient in parallelization.
  • Proficient in systems administration.
  • Intermediate skills in software development methodology: object-oriented design, agile development methods
  • Intermediate skills in network administration (Instructor for Network Admin certification classes).
  • Intermediate system security skills -- firewall setup, penetration testing, host intrusion detection.
  • Intermediate skills in web site design and implementation (HTML, CSS, DHTML, CGI). Basic DBA and SQL skills.
Programming Languages and Operating Systems
(All year counts are based on continuous active employed use, not counting coursework.)
  • Programming Languages: Highly proficient in Perl (9 years), intermediate in C (4 years), intermediate programming skills in C++ (2 years), JavaScript (2 years), Bash (1 year), and FORTRAN (2 years). Basic programming skills in Java (JSP), VBscript, PHP.
  • Statistical Languages: Proficient in R/S programming skills (4 years, authored 6 CRAN modules), intermediate skills in Gauss, basic programming skills in SPSS, SAS. Proficient in analysis in all of the above, and in numerous other statistics, data-manipulation and GIS packages.
  • Operating Systems: Experienced Senior Unix Systems Administrator/IT Director (11 years total, Certified IRIX Instructor for 3 years, 3 Years of HP-UX, and 5 years of RedHat Linux.) Basic Windows, OS X, and Netware administration skills.
Distinctions Without Differences