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.

How to Cite RANDOM.ORG

APA: Haahr, M. (2024, April 19). RANDOM.ORG: True Random Number Service. Retrieved from https://www.random.org
MLA: Haahr, Mads. “True Random Integer Generator.” RANDOM.ORG: True Random Number Service. Randomness and Integrity Services Ltd., 19 Apr. 2024 Web. 19 Apr. 2024.
Harvard: Haahr, M. (2024). RANDOM.ORG: True Random Number Service. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.random.org [Accessed 19 April 2024].
BibTeX: See our BibTeX Entry

Peer-Reviewed Citations

Behn, Nicholas, Togher, Leanne, Power, Emma and Heard, Rob. ‘Evaluating communication training for paid carers of people with traumatic brain injury.’ Brain Injury, December 2012; 26(13–14): 1702–1715.
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.
Byamugisha, Robert, Astrom, Anne N., Ndeezi, Grace, Karamagi, Charles A.S., Tylleskar, Thorkild, and Tumwine, James K. 2011 ‘Male partner antenatal attendance and HIV testing in eastern Uganda: a randomized facility-based intervention trial.’ Journal of the International AIDS Society, 2011, 14:43.
Chagas, Eduarda TC, et al. ‘White Noise Test from Ordinal Patterns in the Entropy–Complexity Plane.’ International Statistical Review (2022).
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.
Horvath, James W., Barnett, Gary E., Jimenez, Rafael E., Young, Donn C. and Povoski, Stephen P. ‘Comparison of intraoperative frozen section analysis for sentinel lymph node biopsy during breast cancer surgery for invasive lobular carcinoma and invasive ductal carcinoma.’ World Journal of Surgical Oncology, BioMed Central, 2009; 7:34.
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.
Perescis MFJ, de Bruin N, Heijink L, Kruse C, Vinogradova L, Lüttjohann A, et al. (2017) Cannabinoid antagonist SLV326 induces convulsive seizures and changes in the interictal EEG in rats. PLoS ONE 12(2): e0165363. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0165363
Rüegg, Nina, Steffen Moritz, Thomas Berger, Thies Lüdtke, and Stefan Westermann. "An internet-based intervention for people with psychosis (EviBaS): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial." BMC psychiatry 18, no. 1 (2018): 102.
Salahu-Din, Sakinah. Social Work Research: An Applied Approach, Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2003.
Zijlstra, Eeuwe S., Kalitsov, Alan, Zier, Tobias, and Garcia, Martin E.. ‘Squeezed Thermal Phonons Precurse Nonthermal Melting of Silicon as a Function of Fluence,’ Physical Review X 3, 011005 (2013).
Jonathan D. Choquette, Ali I. Mokdad, Trevor E. Pitcher, Jacqueline D. Litzgus, Selection and validation of release sites for conservation translocations of temperate-zone snakes, Global Ecology and Conservation, Volume 49, 2024, e02765, ISSN 2351-9894, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02765

Online

Article on HostingAdvice.com, 29 November 2016
Item in Yahoo! Internet Life [todo: find date]

Popular Print

Article in CNN Money, January-February 2012
Article in The Awl on 3 March 2011
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]
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)