Dr. Micah Altman, Director of Research, MIT Libraries
Jan/15 | Wed | 10:00AM-01:00PM | 66-148 |
Enrollment: Sign up at: http://libcal.mit.edu/event.php?id=489658
This tutorial provides a framework for identifying and managing confidential information in research. It is most appropriate for mid-late career graduate students, faculty, and professional research staff who actively engage in the design/planning of research. The course will provide an overview of the major legal requirements governing confidential research data; and the core technological measures used to safeguard data. And it will provide an introduction to the statistical methods and software tools used to analyze and limit disclosure risks. Dr. Altman will be available for individual consultations after the session; schedule these with Randi Shapiro at shapiror@mit.edu.
Please register for this class.
About Micah Altman: Dr. Micah Altman 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.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Randi Shapiro, (617) 324-4988, shapiror@mit.edu