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Cardsharping College students Massachusetts Cambridge Fiction Gamblers Massachusetts Boston Biography Gambling Nevada Las Vegas Las Vegas (Nev.) Drama Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fiction Massachusetts Institute of Technology History 19th century Fiction Massachusetts Institute of Technology Students Biography Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Taiwanese Americans FictionSummary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13Chao, Gloria
Summary: A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC CHAZernike, Kate
Summary: "In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against its most senior female scientists. It was a seismic cultural event--one that forced institutions across the nation to reckon with the bias faced by girls and women in STEM. The Exceptions is the story of the women on MIT's faculty who started it all, centered on the life and career of their unlikely leader:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.133 ZEMMezrich, Ben
Summary: Looks at how a group of M.I.T. students employed simple math and complex disguises to win nearly $4 million at blackjack tables in Las Vegas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.172 MEZPearl, Matthew.
Summary: The first graduating class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is thrown into turmoil by bizarre phenomena that cause instruments to inexplicably spin out of control, challenging enterprising students to protect lives while combating Harvard rivals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEASummary: A group of college students used its math skills to win millions and life in the fast lane seemed like a sure bet. Slip back to the '80s and '90s, when a group of overachieving M.I.T. students morphed into high-rolling, big-stakes gamblers. Backed by anonymous investors, they checked into hotels under assumed names and, pretending not to know each other, communicated with secret gestures and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 795.423 BREPearl, Matthew.
Summary: Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between the past and the present, tradition and technology. On a former marshy wasteland, the daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is rising, its mission to harness science for the benefit of all and to open the doors of opportunity to everyone of merit. But in Boston Harbor a fiery cataclysm throws commerce into...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PEAMezrich, Ben
Summary: When M.I.T. sutdent Kevin Lewis meets classmates Jason Fisher and Andre Martinez, he is intrigued. Although neither seems to have any real responsibilities, they always have plenty of cash. One evening, they tell Kevin why. Using card-tracking calculations, they have devised a way to beat blackjack. Once he learns the system, Kevin joins Jason and Andre at the casinos. There to the growing...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 364.172 MEZMezrich, Ben
Summary: Semyon Dukach was the darling of Las Vegas. A legend at twenty-one, this hotshot was the biggest high roller in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop--a system that has never been revealed until now; that has nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything tried before. From Atlantic City to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology transformed the nature of linguistics before he was 40. In this program with world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee, the outspoken Chomsky challenges accepted notions of the way in which language is learned, examines the relationship of language to experience, and discusses the philosophical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005