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13 unusual facts about Rand Corporation


Abraham M. Halpern

He went on to carry out work on international relations at several institutions, including the Carnegie Institution and the RAND Corporation, where he published extensively on China and Asia.

Arnold Kanter

He has served on the faculty of both Ohio State University and the University of Michigan and also worked for several years in the 1980s at the RAND Corporation.

Cheryl Benard

Cheryl Benard (born in 1953 in New Orleans, United States) is an adjunct researcher with the RAND Corporation and President of ARCH International, a DC-based non-profit research and advocacy organization dedicated to the support of cultural activism in all situations of post-conflict.

D. R. Fulkerson

He was then with the mathematics department at the RAND Corporation until 1971 when he moved to Cornell University as the Maxwell Upson Professor of Engineering.

Geography of Mars

After the spacecraft Mariner 9 provided extensive imagery of Mars in 1972, a small crater (later called Airy-0), located in the Sinus Meridiani ('Middle Bay' or 'Meridian Bay') along the line of Beer and Mädler, was chosen by Merton Davies of the RAND Corporation to provide a more precise definition of 0.0° longitude when he established a planetographic control point network.

George Dantzig

In 1952 Dantzig joined the mathematics division of the RAND Corporation.

Interval graph

The mathematical theory of interval graphs was developed with a view towards applications by researchers at the RAND Corporation's mathematics department, which included young researchers—such as Peter C. Fishburn and students like Alan C. Tucker and Joel E. Cohen—besides leaders—such as Delbert Fulkerson and (recurring visitor) Victor Klee.

Lloyd Morrisett

Morrisett was also a board member of RAND (a research institute dealing with domestic public policy and national security issues) for thirty years and Chairman of the Board for nine years, 1986-1995.

Lorenzo G. Vidino

A visiting fellow at the RAND Corporation in Washington DC from October 2010, he previously held fellowships at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, the U.S. Institute of Peace, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Phyllis Cheng

Cheng was also a researcher on school desegregation at the RAND Corporation, adjunct faculty at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, director of a mentoring program for at-risk girls at USC, and a debate panelist on KNBC’s Emmy-winning “Free 4 All” program.

Samuel T. Cohen

Cohen was personally responsible for recruiting the famous strategist Herman Kahn into the RAND Corporation.

Unconquerable Nation

Jenkins currently serves as Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation.

Zimbabwean American

The RAND Corporation estimated in 2000 that there were 100,000 in the state of New York alone.


Alexander Benard

Cheryl Benard is an author and political scientist at the RAND Corporation and the founder of The Bamiyan Project, a non-profit organization seeking to rebuild the Bamiyan Buddhas.

Bevin Alexander

Bevin has served as a consultant and adviser to several groups due to his military expertise, including work for the Rand Corporation, work as a consultant for military simulations instituted by the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, and as director of information at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

David S. Yost

Dr. Yost has been a consultant to various organizations, including the Rand Corporation, the Hudson Institute, the Ford Foundation, the National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP), Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Joseph Albert Kechichian

He is an Adjunct Professor of U.S.-Middle East Relations, Pepperdine University, a senior researcher at the RAND Corporation in California and the Armenian Research Center.

SIMSCRIPT

SIMSCRIPT is a free-form, English-like general-purpose simulation language conceived by Harry Markowitz and Bernard Hausner at the RAND Corporation in 1963.