• Ph.D. North Dakota State University (Philosophy)
• MS North Dakota State University (Computer Science)
• BA Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota (Computer Science)

Professor Altenburg teaches Management Information Systems (MIS) courses. His research interests include: investigations of the emergence of order in decentralized systems. The investigations involve collective robotics, animals, neural networks, and agent-based computer simulations.

In 2001, Altenburg was awarded the ND EPSCoR, Faculty Laboratory and Research Experience (FLARE), Autonomous Agent Communication for Dynamic Organizational Development. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IEEE Computer Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science and the North Dakota State Academy of Science.

Visit Professor Altenburg's website at: www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndsu/altenbur/