True Random Number Service

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Media Coverage and Citations

RANDOM.ORG is a true random number service that generates randomness via atmospheric noise. This page lists the popular media coverage and the peer-reviewed citations that the service has received since it went online in 1998.

Popular Print

Article in the Wall Street Journal on 21 September 2006
Article in Science News on 4 December 2004 (volume 166, no. 23)
Article in the Financial Times on 11 June 2004
Article in the New York Times on 8 April 2004
Article in Wired Magazine in August 2003 (volume 11, no. 8)
Item in Focus Magazine [todo: find date]
Item in Yahoo! Internet Life [todo: find date]
Article in the New York Times on 12 June 2001

Radio

BBC Radio 4 Front Row on 26 August 2009 in which Mark Lawson interviews writer Nicholson Baker who mentions how he has used RANDOM.ORG in his writing (MP3, 9m13s, 13 MB)
Interview on Danish National Radio on 19 August 2003 (MP3, 11m57s, 5.7 MB)

Peer-Reviewed Citations

Bernstein, Jay H. ‘From the Ubiquitous to the Nonexistent: A Demographic Study of OCLC WorldCat,’ Library Resources & Technical Services 50 (2): 79-90, Spring 2006.
Biggar, Paul, Nash, Nicholas, Williams, Kevin, and Gregg, David. 2008. ‘An experimental study of sorting and branch prediction.’ ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics. 12 (Jun. 2008), 1-39.
Fankhauser, Niklaus and Mäser, Pascal. ‘Identification of GPI anchor attachment signals by a Kohonen self-organizing map.’ Bioinformatics, Oxford University Press, 2005;21(9):1846-1852.
Haahr, Mads. ‘Random Numbers,’ editor Neil J. Salkind, Encyclopedia of Measurements and Statistics, Sage Publications, 2006.
Huestis, Bradley J. ‘Anatomy of a Random Court-Martial Panel,’ The Army Lawyer, DPA 27-50-401, October 2006.
Kellar, Ian & Abraham, Charles. ‘Randomised controlled trial of a brief research-based intervention promoting fruit and vegetable consumption.’ British Journal of Health Psychology, British Psychological Society, 2005;10(4):543-558.
Mowbray, Miranda & Gollman, Dieter. ‘Electing the Doge of Venice: analysis of a 13th Century protocol.’ In Proc. IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium. (Venice, Italy July 6-8 2007), pp.295-308, ISBN 0-7695-2819-8.
Salahu-Din, Sakinah. Social Work Research: An Applied Approach, Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2003.