Michael Lederman Littman (born August 30, 1966) is a computer scientist, researcher, educator, and author.

Before graduate school, Littman worked with Thomas Landauer at Bellcore and was granted a patent for one of the earliest systems for cross-language information retrieval.

[2] Littman is currently on rotation from Brown University as a Division Director at the National Science Foundation.

[3] Littman's research interests are varied but have focused mostly on reinforcement learning and related fields, particularly, in machine learning more generally, game theory, computer networking, partially observable Markov decision process solving, computer solving of analogy problems and other areas.

He is also interested in computing education more broadly and has authored a book on programming for everyone.