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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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simulation language conceived by Harry Markowitz and Bernard Hausner at the RAND Corporation in 1962. It was implemented as a Fortran preprocessor on the IBM 7090...
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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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Michael Pillsbury (section RAND Corporation reports)
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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some also allow it against threat of robbery and burglary. A 2020 RAND Corporation review of existing research concluded: "There is supportive evidence...
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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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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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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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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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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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Ariane Tabatabai (category RAND Corporation people)
Tabatabai worked as a researcher for the southern California-based RAND Corporation think tank. She was then a curriculum director and visiting associate...
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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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Aircraft Company in 1941, then worked for RAND Corporation from 1951, IBM from 1957, UNIVAC – Sperry Rand in 1965, Bull from 1965, General Electric from...
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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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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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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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Albert Wohlstetter (category RAND Corporation people)
McKinsey were working at the recently formed RAND Corporation. With their help, Hans Speier, the head of the RAND social science division, hired Roberta, initially...
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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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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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security experts Willis Ware, Harold Petersen, and Rein Turn, all of the RAND Corporation, and Bernard Peters of the National Security Agency (NSA), all used...
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