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RAND Classics in Information Science

RAND has a historic record of achievement in the development of computing: RAND staff designed and built one of the earliest computers, developed an early on-line interactive terminal-based computer system, and invented the telecommunications technique that has become the basis for modern computer networks. Below are some selected RAND Classics in information science:

Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail - 1985

Norman Z. Shapiro, and Robert H. Anderson, RAND, R-3283-NSF/RC

Security Controls for Computer Systems, Report of Defense Science Board Task Force on Computer Security - 1979

Willis Ware (editor), RAND, R-609-1, October 1979, with a new introduction by Willis Ware.

The Delphi Method, III: Use of Self Ratings to Improve Group Estimates - 1969

N. Dalkey, B. Brown, S. Cochran, RAND, RM-6115-PR (This file was rendered in PDF from the original document by Barry K. Sanford, The University of Louisville, 1999.)

On Distributed Communications - 1964

Paul Baran, et al.,a 12-volume series of reports

A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates - 1955

The RAND Corporation, Glencoe, IL: The Free Press