Home to the Greenspun College of Urban Affairs and the Brookings Mountain West Institute, this five-story, 120, 000 square foot building is home to state-of-the art media facilities.

Philip Greenspun is a semi-retired American computer scientist, educator, and early Internet entrepreneur who was a pioneer in developing online communities.

Among software engineers, Greenspun is known for his Tenth Rule of Programming: " Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

Greenspun is a volunteer for Angel Flight and, on December 6, 2010, assisted in the first nationally arranged kidney paired-donation in which kidneys were flown from Lebanon, New Hampshire to St. Louis and vice versa ( source ).

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In his review in The New York Times, Roger Greenspun wrote, " But it is Stella Stevens, at last in a role good enough for her, who most wonderfully sustains and enlightens the action.

" Roger Greenspun of the New York Times saw it differently: " If it were an ordinary bad movie ( and it is a very bad movie ), WUSA might, in spite of the distinguished names, and less distinguished presence, of its leading actors, be dismissed with no more than a nod to the tension between Rosenberg's ponderously emphatic direction, and Robert Stone's ponderously allusive screenplay.

It is a joint venture of Station Casinos and The Greenspun Corporation ( TGC ); each entity holds a 50 % stake in the property.

Two Mules for Sister Sara received moderately favorable reviews, and Roger Greenspun of The New York Times reported, " I'm not sure it is a great movie, but it is very good and it stays and grows on the mind the way only movies of exceptional narrative intelligence do ".

There is a school located in Henderson, Nevada dedicated to Hank and Barbara Greenspun.

It is the largest circulating daily newspaper in Nevada, and one of two daily newspapers in Las Vegas ( The Greenspun Corporation-owned Las Vegas Sun is distributed with it ).

KTUD-LD, virtual channel 25. 1 ( digital channel 20 ), is an independent television station serving the Las Vegas, Nevada market owned and operated by the Greenspun Broadcasting, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Greenspun Corporation.

It is owned by the Greenspun family and is affiliated with Greenspun Media Group.

The Sun is produced by its editors, reporters and photographers at The Greenspun Corporation's suburban Henderson offices, then printed by the Review-Journal and included inside the pages of the morning R-J.

Greenspun Media Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Greenspun Corporation.

Greenspun and his co-founders started a non-profit foundation that ran the ArsDigita Prize, an award for young web developers, and the ArsDigita University, a tuition-free one-year program teaching the core computer science curriculum, one course at a time.

Greenspun has taught electrical engineering and computer science at MIT (" Teaching Software Engineering ").

In 2003, Greenspun helped teach a newly designed circuits and electronics course at MIT.

In January 2011 and again in January 2012, Greenspun taught an intensive RDBMS / SQL programming course at MIT using Google Docs to coordinate classroom instruction.

* audio interview with Philip Greenspun at IT Conversations

During World War II, while stationed in Northern Ireland, Greenspun met his wife, Barbara, at a dinner party hosted by Maureen Black ( née Peres ) daughter of Harold Peres of Solomon and Peres and wife of British Businessman, Roy Keith Black.

Then, in September 2011, the paper laid off a dozen additional employees, with Greenspun pointing to layoffs at the Sun a direct result of recent layoffs at the Review-Journal.

Joe Kidd received a mixed reception, with Roger Greenspun of The New York Times writing that it was unremarkable, with foolish symbolism and sloppy editing, although he praised Eastwood's performance.

Certified under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design ( LEED ) rating system, the building was named after Las Vegas Sun founder and publisher, Hank Greenspun.

Greenspun was born on September 28, 1963, grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and received an S. B.

Greenspun was an early developer of database-backed Web sites, which became the dominant approach to engineering sites with user contributions, e. g., Amazon. com.

Greenspun was a developer of one of the first Web-based electronic medical record systems ( http :// www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov / pmc / articles / PMC116301 / " Building national electronic medical record systems via the World Wide Web .").

In 1995, Greenspun was hired to lead development of Hearst Corporation's Internet services, which included some early e-commerce sites.

ArsDigita was a web development company cofounded by Philip Greenspun, Tracy Adams, Ben Adida, Eve Andersson, Olin Shivers, Aure Prochazka, and Jin Choi and was started in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the mid-1990s.

Recruiting was touted heavily by Greenspun, and Ars Digita became notorious among the " elite geeks " as a place where recruiting could result in significant payoffs.

KLAS was the first TV station in Nevada ( beating KOLO-TV in Reno by two months and five days ) and was started by Hank Greenspun on July 8, 1953.

Greenspun sold it to aviation magnate Howard Hughes in 1968, reportedly because the tycoon was dismayed that the station never played his favorite late-night movies.

The only notable positive review came from Roger Greenspun of The New York Times who said that the film was " close enough to greatness to stand above everything else so far in the current season.

Herman " Hank " Milton Greenspun ( August 27, 1909 – July 23, 1989 ) was the longtime, and often controversial, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun newspaper.

Greenspun was also a prominent real estate developer in the Las Vegas Valley.

As a young man, Greenspun became closely involved with Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel and the work he was doing to reopen his Flamingo casino.

In 1947, when the Haganah was already in armed conflict with Arab forces, Greenspun shipped machine guns and airplane parts to that organization ( which later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces ).

This was a violation of the U. S. Neutrality Acts, a crime for which Greenspun was arrested and ultimately convicted on July 10, 1950.

As Greenspun was an avowed Republican, it was assumed that Greenspun would use his political influence and connections to sway the election.

* The Greens Cafe owned by the Greenspun Corporation

* Las Vegas, Nevada — Las Vegas Review-Journal ( owned by Stephens Media LLC ) and the Las Vegas Sun ( owned by Greenspun Media Group ): as of November 2005, the Sun publishes as a daily insert inside the R-J ( expires in 2040 )

In 2008 SgpMedia produced the feature documentary about the life and times of Hank Greenspun, narrated by Anthony Hopkins.

* Review by Philip Greenspun

The Las Vegas Sun was first published on May 21, 1950, by Hank Greenspun, who served as its editor until his death.

The two newspapers ' editorial departments continue to have in-print disputes, often on the op-ed pages by Brian Greenspun and former Review-Journal publisher Sherman Frederick.