A former player – one of the nation’s greatest walks into the changeroom. There is a respectful hush as he starts to speak. He talks about pride. He talks about spirit. He talks about commitment – about attitude. He talks about winning – the history of the nation at the world cup. With tears in his eyes he begins to recite the names of the great players who have gone before. He asks players to ...

This is the summary talk of a meeting held at the KEK, Tsukuba, Japan, November 20–22, 2001. I give a brief summary of the talks we heard, and a few comments of my own on various points that have been made. Other talks given at this meeting are referred to by the speakers last name; these talks will appear in the same proceedings. See these talks for the detailed references for each subject. Ta...

This report documents the talks and group work of Dagstuhl Seminar 16091 “Computational Challenges in Cooperative Intelligent Urban Transport”. This interdisciplinary seminar brought researchers together from many fields including computer science, transportation, operations research, mathematics, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The seminar included two formats of talks: several m...

Outside of Western contexts, natural-conversation-based research on intergenerational communication is relatively rare. To help redress this imbalance, this paper explores the conversational styles of first-encounter talks between five pairs of college students and older adults in Taiwan, and infers the interactional norms that underlie them. It is found that younger Taiwanese adults tend to ex...