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    The RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank, research institute, and public sector consulting firm. RAND Corporation engages...
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    1955, Sperry acquired Remington Rand and renamed itself Sperry Rand. Acquiring then- Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation and Engineering Research Associates...
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    Armed Forces. Remington Rand was formed in 1927 by the merger of the Remington Typewriter Company and Rand Kardex Corporation. One of its earliest factories...
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  • Look up rand in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rand may refer to: South African rand, the nation's unit of currency Krugerrand, South African gold coin...
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    UNIVAC (redirect from Univac Sperry Rand)
    products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. Later the name was applied to a division of the Remington Rand company and successor organizations....
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    The Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School (Pardee RAND) is a private graduate school associated with the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California...
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  • Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates by RAND Corporation. This book was a product of RAND's pioneering work in computing, as well a testament...
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    fellowship in Taiwan. While employed as a social science analyst at the RAND Corporation from 1973 to 1977, he published articles in Foreign Policy and International...
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    Award. RAND Corporation "Mr. Franklin R. Collbohm. Inducted 1989" (PDF). afspc.af.mil. Retrieved April 24, 2023. "F. R. Collbohm, 83, Ex-Head of Rand, Dies"...
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    Simon Sinek (category RAND Corporation people)
    Studies. May 16, 2012. Retrieved October 18, 2023. "RAND Corporation Staff Directory". RAND Corporation. Retrieved August 22, 2018. Maher, John (November...
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  • The RAND Health Insurance Experiment (RAND HIE) was an experimental study from 1974 to 1982 of health care costs, utilization and outcomes in the United...
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  • Dalia Dassa Kaye (category RAND Corporation people)
    as the Director of the Center for Middle East Public Policy at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California. Dalia Dassa Kaye received a PhD in political...
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  • technical talent. The U.S. Air Force created the first FFRDC, the RAND Corporation, in 1947. Others grew directly out of their wartime roles. For example...
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  • policy,” Project Air Force, (RAND Corporation), p 131-132, 136, http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2006/RAND_MG403.pdf Meilinger, Phillip...
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  • the RAND Corporation. In April 1955, the government contracted with RAND to help write software for the SAGE project. Within a few months, RAND's System...
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  • journal of economics published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the RAND Corporation. It publishes theoretical and empirical papers on industrial organization...
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    to make up between 15% and 80% of the combatants. According to the RAND Corporation, "Russia has armed, trained, and led the separatist forces. But even...
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    Operations in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine (PDF). Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. ISBN 978-0-8330-9617-3. OCLC 990544142. Archived (PDF) from the original...
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    Operational Cycles on the Maintenance Industrial Base: Technical Report. RAND Corporation. p. 30. ISBN 978-0-8330-4182-1. Wertheim 2005, pp. 919–920 Wertheim...
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    statistical experiments, like PRNG nowadays). On 29 April 1947, the RAND Corporation began generating random digits with an "electronic roulette wheel"...
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  • (1978) p. 204. Remington Rand Univac a Division of Sperry Rand Corporation (1957). FLOW-MATIC PROGRAMMING SYSTEM p. 30. Sperry Rand (1957) p. 7. Sammet (1969)...
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  • Michael D. Rich (category RAND Corporation people)
    Michael D. Rich is President Emeritus at RAND Corporation. Rich was the fifth president and CEO of the Santa Monica, California-based research institution...
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  • anyone can use a vulnerability, and according to research by the RAND Corporation, "any serious attacker can always get an affordable zero-day for almost...
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    Research Projects Agency (ARPA). Independently, Paul Baran at the RAND Corporation proposed a distributed network based on data in message blocks in the...
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    institutions and facilities. The air fleet continued to shrink, with RAND Corporation predicting PLAAF being halved by the early 2000s. PLAAF leadership...
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    500 km and a payload capacity of at least 10 tonnes; according to the Rand Corporation, an American funded thinktank, it will allow China "to reliably threaten...
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    Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates is a random number book by the RAND Corporation, originally published in 1955. The book, consisting primarily of a...
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    be controlled.) The task force published 15 copies; the think tank RAND Corporation received two of the copies from Gelb, Morton Halperin and Paul Warnke...
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    Herman Kahn (category RAND Corporation people)
    as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He analyzed the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommended...
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    in Gun Policy: Essays from the RAND Gun Policy in America Project (PDF) (Report). Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. pp. 1–25. Retrieved March 27, 2023...
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