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Interfraternity Motor Sweepstakes—which would come to be known colloquially as Buggy—is one of Carnegie Mellon University's longest traditions. The students and alumni who have participated throughout the years, documented so much of its history, and celebrated across generations created a community that is rare on modern university campuses.But the Sweepstakes demonstrated—and continues to demonstrate—a profoundly unique aspect of CMU's community. Buggy is a demonstration of our collective commitment to both art and science. It's a demonstration of our desire to create applied knowledge to solve problems that exist outside the walls of the university. This is what makes CMU great: our ability to be interdisciplinary, to seek non-traditional solutions to problems, and to empower our students to challenge themselves outside of the classroom. It's this spirit that made Spring Carnival—where the Sweepstakes happen—as important to CMU's culture today as it was one-hundred years ago. This is our celebration of a collaboration between the arts, the sciences, the humanities, and athletics. This is our celebration of a collaboration between students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the larger world. This is where we celebrate working together toward a common goal.And Buggy—a student-run event—was the first, and most enduring, demonstration of all of those ideals. Nuts, Bolts, & Wheels: 100 Years of Buggy is a celebration of those students—past, present, and future.

The 2019/2020 academic year marks the 20th anniversary of the ETC. To celebrate, we’ve reached out to ETC alumni to capture their stories. We talked with alums about their experiences at the ETC, how it helped shape their work and career after they left, and how it has impacted the work they have done, and are doing.As a professional degree, the proof of ETC’s continued success is our amazing alumni, and we’ve tried to get a nice mix across the years and industries to help highlight the range of their work and accomplishments. This book captures twenty interviews, and we plan to continue talking with alumni to help share their stories.

Dungeons & Dreamers follows the designers, developers, and players who built the virtual games and communities that define today’s digital entertainment landscape and explores the nature of what it means to live and thrive in virtual communities.This translation was done by Toru Hiramatsu. He graduated from the Osaka University of Foreign Studies with a degree in German and intercultural communication as his sub major. After graduating, he engaged in localizing (i.e. translating into Japanese) music software’s user manuals and software resources at Cameo Interactive, Ltd. as an Apple certified service engineer. After that, he worked for a publishing company called SHOEISHA as an editor, translation, and proofreader. In 2000, he started his career as a freelance translator and editor. Now he is working for a software developer as a bug hunter of an MMO while continuing translation of music magazine articles, software online help files, and Web pages.

Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus was first published two hundred years ago on March 11, 1818. Shelley’s novel warns of the possible sacrifices for knowledge and hints toward the costs to man and society, how new knowledge can redefine human existence and experience. These themes of Frankenstein have been reinterpreted and applied to debates regarding atomic weapons, nuclear energy, cloning, bioengineering, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI). This collection brings together CMU scholars in the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences to consider the relevance of Shelley’s novel today, particularly how it helps frame the responsibility of investigators to consider the consequences of artificial intelligence and a technologically-augmented human society.

Before the multibillion computer game industry, there was Dungeons & Dragons, a tabletop game created by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson in 1974. D&D captured the attention of a small but influential group of players, many of whom also gravitated to the computer networks that were then appearing on college campuses around the globe. With the subsequent emergence of the personal computer, a generation of geeky storytellers arose that translated communal D&D playing experiences into the virtual world of computer games. The result of that 40-year journey is today's massive global community of players who, through games, have forged very real friendships and built thriving lives in virtual worlds. Dungeons & Dreamers follows the designers, developers, and players who built the virtual games and communities that define today's digital entertainment landscape and explores the nature of what it means to live and thrive in virtual communities.