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#72157: Dr. Bo Bernhard, Exec. Director UNLV IGI speaks to YES students at the law school. YES is the educational vision of IGI and Core Academy, powered by The Rogers Foundation. YES brings together UNLV IGI's gaming-hospitality expertise with the project-based mentoring approach of Core Academy to touch the lives of Las Vegas' underresourced youth, 2018 June 21

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
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Collection Number: PH-00388-05
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 01

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#72152: Young Executive Scholars Program (YES) Hospitality & Tourism Program visits the Linq. YES is the educational vision of IGI and Core Academy, powered by The Rogers Foundation. YES brings together UNLV IGI's gaming-hospitality expertise with the project-based mentoring approach of Core Academy to touch the lives of Las Vegas' underresourced youth, 2018 June 19

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
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Collection Number: PH-00388-05
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 01

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#72137: Young Executive Scholars Program (YES) Hospitality & Tourism Program visits the Aria. YES is the educational vision of IGI and Core Academy, powered by The Rogers Foundation. YES brings together UNLV IGI's gaming-hospitality expertise with the project-based mentoring approach of Core Academy to touch the lives of Las Vegas' underresourced youth, 2018 June 06

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
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Collection Number: PH-00388-05
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 01

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Transcript of interview with Gary Sanoff by David Schwartz, June 29, 2015

Date
2015-06-29
Description
Interviewed by David Schwartz. Gary Sanoff grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He went to college to study to be a teacher, but never finished. Gary went on the road with his band, but decided to do something else. His parents had moved to Las Vegas, and his father was a dealer. In 1979 he moved to Las Vegas and went to dealer school to be a craps dealer. Gary started at the Nevada Hotel and worked there for two weeks, then he worked at the El Cortez, then went to the Union Plaza where he was a box man and then a floor man. He moved to the Desert Inn and was a dealer and then a floor man there. Next he moved to the Bellagio, was a pit manager, assistant shift manager, shift manager, Interim Vice President of Table Games, and was director at the time of the interview. Nevada, El Cortez, Union Plaza, Desert Inn, Bellagio

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Christiaan Van Buuren oral history interview

Identifier
OH-02737
Abstract

Oral history interview with Christiaan Van Buuren conducted by David Schwartz on June 30, 2015 for the Table Games Management Oral History Project. In this interview, Van Buuren recalls his early career working as a card dealer and assistant casino manager in South Africa. He also discusses the gaming school he ran at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, surveillance for Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, work as a casino consultant for Kangwonland casino in South Korea, and work as a floor supervisor for the SLS Las Vegas.

Archival Collection

UNLV University Libraries Collection of Blackjack Software Manuals

Identifier
MS-00856
Abstract

Collection is comprised of blackjack odds analyzing and strategy software manuals and software created primarily by Real World Casino and Stanford Wong (pen name of gambling author, John Ferguson) from approximately 1992 to 1996. The manuals and software in this collection are intended primarily for expert blackjack players to analyze real world effects of the game and to allow users to generate strategies for a specific game.

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Lester Earnest oral history interview

Identifier
OH-03237
Abstract

Oral history interview with Lester Earnest conducted by David Schwartz on August 8, 2017 for the Competitive Video Gaming Oral History Project. In this interview, Earnest discusses the beginning of his career in computing, speaking at length about the military SAGE project the he believes was designed to fail. He then talks at length about his work with the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) and the development of the computing environment through the 1960s and 1970s. He also talks about his development of the FINGER protocol and the role of artificial intelligence in the early development of video gaming, as well as various individuals who got their start with SAIL before developing modern computing and software systems.

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Photograph of guests at the Sands Hotel, Las Vegas, 1959

Date
1959
Description
An image of guests at the gaming tables in the Sands Casino.

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#72138: Young Executive Scholars Program (YES) Hospitality & Tourism Program visits the Luxor and the Esports Arena. YES is the educational vision of IGI and Core Academy, powered by The Rogers Foundation. YES brings together UNLV IGI's gaming-hospitality expertise with the project-based mentoring approach of Core Academy to touch the lives of Las Vegas' underresourced youth, 2018 June 07

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Archival Collection
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: PH-00388-05
Collection Name: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Creative Services Records (2010s)
Box/Folder: Digital File 01

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