Essays Tagged: "RAND Corporation"

The Internet, Then and Now.

with most technological advances in the world, the Internet was born out from a military idea. The Rand corporation, which in the late 1950s was the United States (US) number one cold war think-tank, ... US formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) within the Department of Defense (DOD). The Rand corporation, a major cold war pentagon contractor, began to work directly with pentagon officia ...

(12 pages) 501 1 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

The Internet, Past, Present, and Future

Some thirty years ago, the RAND Corporation, America's foremost Cold War think-tank, faced a strange strategic problem. How cou ... rget for an enemy missile. The center of the network would be the very first place to be destroyed. RAND mulled over this grim puzzle in deep military secrecy, and arrived at a daring solution. The RA ... rugged.During the 1960s, this concept of a decentralized, packet-switching network was pondered by RAND, MIT and UCLA. The National Physical Laboratory in Great Britain setup the first test network o ...

(5 pages) 154 0 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Caught In the Net. History of the net

States under the banner of 'National Security.' One of America's foremost Cold War think-tanks, the RAND Corporation, faced a unique strategic problem during the Cold War period which involved the Uni ... ich involved the United States military capabilities in the event of a nuclear war.The question the RAND Corporation had to answer was 'How could U.S. authorities successfully communicate after a nucl ...

(7 pages) 89 0 4.3 Oct/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

How the internet got started

Some thirty years ago , the Rand corporation , America's formost cold war thinktank, faced a strange straegic problem. How could ... immediate target for man enemymissle. Thecenter of the network would be the very first place to go.RAND mulled over this grim puzzle in deep military secrecy, and arrived at adaring solution made in ...

(3 pages) 64 0 3.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

The Internet, any source of information right under your finger at the press of a button

'How could U.S. authorities successfully communicate after a nuclear war?' The answer came from the Rand Corporation, America's foremost Cold War think-tank. Why not create a network of computers with ... Why not create a network of computers without one central main authoritative unit (Sterling 1) The Rand Corporation working along side the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) devised a plan ...

(9 pages) 179 0 4.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

The Decriminalization of Marijuana : A reaction paper supporting the legalization of marijuana

ased. The opposite of this gateway affect is also present the United States. In 1993 a study by the Rand Corporation compared drug use in states that have decriminalized marijuana and those that have ... ement techniques -- such as use of undercover operations, arbitrary or invasive testing procedures, random or dragnet seizures, and similar measures -- that raise serious civil liberties concerns. The ...

(6 pages) 374 2 3.9 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Psychological effects of combat

ast numbers of psychiatric casualties suffered by soldiers in World War I. And yet, incredibly, the Rand Corporation's Strategic Bombing Study published in 1949 found that there was only a very slight ...

(3 pages) 44 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

Scenario Planning A Review

ario planning has a long history in the military but was first brought to the business world by the RAND Corporation during and after the Second World War. Herman Kahn published "the Year 2000" in 196 ...

(11 pages) 292 0 4.2 Mar/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Death Penalty

is executed. Yet the fact that one gets away with it is no reason to let another one escape."A 1991 Rand Corporation study by Stephen Klein found that white murderers received the death penalty slight ... persons shall be held to answer for acapital... crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury... nor be deprived oflife... without the due process of law.' This clearly permits the dea ...

(15 pages) 168 0 3.6 Apr/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Capital Punishment

claim helps to make sense of why so many more blacks are executed than whites.Stephen Klein, of the Rand Corporation, found that: "White murders received the death penalty slightly more often (32%) th ...

(6 pages) 155 0 3.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Organization behavior report.

e only 2 percent of laid off employees who weretreated well pursued claims. Based on a study by the Rand Corporation, these claims can costcompanies over $100,000 per suit to defend (Molinsky, A and M ...

(25 pages) 153 0 5.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management

Untitled

any others have in the past? History The first nodes of the Internet were built 36 years ago by the RAND corporation. They faced the problem of keeping communication between U.S. authorities active in ... gest problem was protecting the main server, which could be knocked out by a single atomic warhead. RAND came up with the solution in 1964. The new network would have no central authority, and secondl ...

(5 pages) 15 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Condoms A Good Idea

teens are more likely to use them and reduce the risk of pregnancy and disease. A study done by the Rand Corporation found that giving condoms out in schools makes teens more aware of the "possible lo ...

(4 pages) 31 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Case study on John Nash (who the movie "A Beautiful Mind" is based on)

others. (O'Connor & Robertson, 2002)After earning his degree, Dr. Nash went on to work for the RAND Corporation. A nonprofit organization, RAND was formed to conduct research and analyses for the ... homosexual tendencies, was targeted. (Baxter, 2003)Simultaneously and following his dismissal from RAND, Dr. Nash taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It is reported that his st ...

(16 pages) 0 0 0.0 Sep/2013

Subjects: Science Essays > Mental Health