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The Wheel Las Vegas Rotary Club newsletter, March 17, 1977
Date
1977-03-17
Archival Collection
Description
Newsletter issued by the Las Vegas Rotary Club
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Transcript of interview with Dr. Thomas Nartker by Dr. David Emerson, November 13, 2006
Date
2006-11-13
Archival Collection
Description
Thomas Nartker was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, and most of his family, including three brothers and a sister, still live there. He attended grade school and high school there, and then attended the University of Dayton. He majored in chemical engineering, following the example of his father, who had a degree in electrical engineering. By the time he was a sophomore in college, he was six-foot nine and had spent some time on the basketball court, but when asked to play his senior year at U. of D., he declined. He had already been accepted for graduate study at the University of Tennessee. Thomas finished all course work and research on his master's in one year, everything but the thesis. He interviewed over 30 companies before he graduated, but an interview with DuPont in Delaware made him think about the value of a PhD in his line of work. He applied and was accepted at Texas A&M. He worked with Dave Billingsley, who was the resident computer expert, and Dave showed him how to process all the data he had collected for his master's thesis on the IBM 650. Tom had found a new passion. Within a year, Tom was working as an assistant in the data processing center at Texas A&M, and was also the teaching assistant for the computer programming class. After completing his PhD, which took 6 years, Thomas began interviewing again. He accepted a position at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMIMT) as assistant professor of mathematics and director of the computing center. He left NMIMT in 1981 and took a job with Shell Oil Company, which included 5 years as a visiting staff member at Los Alamos. In 1985 he met John Werth, who ultimately offered Tom a job at UNLV. Tom made the move to Las Vegas in July of 1985. Dr. Nartket and Dr. Taghva started the UNLV Information Science Research Institute and did experimental research on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for the Department of Energy (DOE). They invented many metrics never seen before, including a metric called Nonstop Word Accuracy. Today UNLV is known worldwide for being the premier center for doing research in OCR technology. Thomas is in his seventies today and continues with his research and teaching because he loves it. He has enjoyed over two decades at UNLV and finds it a rewarding and intellectual place to be. He considers this university to be one of the most exciting in the country as it grows in research and service.
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Pueblo Grande de Nevada Manuscript Collection
Identifier
MS-00208
Abstract
The Pueblo Grande de Nevada Manuscript Collection (1924-1983) contains journal articles, photocopies of artifact inventories, reports, correspondence, and field notes related to the Pueblo Grande de Nevada archaeological site located in the Overton Valley of Southern Nevada. The bulk of the materials are related to Mark R. Harrington's archaeological reports, journal articles, and data from sites throughout the Overton and Moapa valleys. The collection also includes materials related to the Boulder Dam Park Museum (Lost City Museum of Archaeology) located in Overton, Nevada, which housed many of the artifacts and photographs from Harrington's archaeological sites.
Archival Collection
Photograph of Dalta Hurry with his arm in a sling, Goldfield (Nev.), 1907
Date
1907
Archival Collection
Description
Photograph of Dalta Hurry with his arm in a sling, Goldfield (Nev.), 1907
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Photograph of a menu from the Montgomery Cafe, Beatty, Nevada, circa 1950s
Date
1950 to 1959
Archival Collection
Description
Menu from the Montgomery Cafe, believed to have been located in the Montgomery Hotel, Beatty, Nevada. The Montgomery Cafe's menu features the famed T.G. Nicklin map of the Bullfrog area. (More information on the photoboard.) (Courtesy of Claudia Reidhead, Beatty, Nevada)
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Sanchez, Tony F., III, 1966-
Tony F. Sanchez III was born in the Las Vegas’ Women’s Hospital. It was 1966 and the plot of land the hospital sat on near Eastern and Sahara streets was considered rural. It was on the desert of the east Las Vegas that young Tony would grow up, graduate from Valley High School, and then graduate from University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Person
Mrs. Littell, wife of W.A. Littell, and a baby: photographic print
Date
1888-06
Archival Collection
Description
Mrs. A. Littell and an unidentified baby; Taken in Candelaria, Nevada, June 1888. Stamp on back of photo reads: "Artistic photographer Alexander Edouart, No. 6 Turk St. San Fransisco. Elevator runs on Sunday from 9 to 4."
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