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the 2008 TAA Conference at Harrah's in Las Vegas, June 19-21
2008
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Sessions
General
Session
David Schwartz
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Further
Orientation to Las Vegas: Seven Things You Should Know About Casinos
Saturday,
June 21, 8 to 8:30 a.m.
Las Vegas Room
Presenter:
David Schwartz, Center for Gaming Research, University of Nevada,
Las Vegas
Where did
cards come from? Who really started the Las Vegas Strip? What's
the relationship between organized crime and gambling? What's
the best bet in the casino? The worst? Why are casinos so big?
Weaving together history, practical math, and Las Vegas lore,
this talk makes casinos a little less mysterious.
About the
Presenter:
David G.
Schwarz has been the Director of Gaming Research at the
University of Nevada Las Vegas since 2001. As director, he oversees
the acquisiton of new materials for the Center and seeks to encourage
its utilization by scholarly, media, government, and industrial
researchers. He also created and maintains a gaming research website
at http://gaming.unlv.edu Schwartz
is a writer, speaker, and consultant on gaming and related issues. Born
and raised in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Schwartz earned his bachelor's
degree (a double major in anthropology and history) as well as
his master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania before
seeking his doctorate in US History from UCLA. He became
the youngest Ph.D. in recent memory from UCLA's history department,
filing his dissertation and receiving his Ph.D. at the age of
26 in early 2000. His dissertation, Suburban
Xanadu, charted the evolution of the casino industry on the
Las Vegas Strip from 1945-1978, and was published as a book, Suburban
Xanadu: The Casino Resort on the Las Vegas Strip and Beyond. After
completing his graduate studies, Schwartz worked in the surveillance
department of an Atlantic City casino resort and taught casino
history, communications, and hospitality courses as an adjunct
professor, before coming to UNLV. In addition to directing
the Center, Schwartz teaches classes on the history of gambling
and economic and social aspects of gambling. He has also
written Cutting the Wire: Gaming Prohibition and the Internet and Roll
the Bones: The History of Gambling, and writes regularly
for Casino Connection and the Las Vegas
Business Press.
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