“…I am happy to welcome you to our fourth International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '98) at the Castle of L'Aquila (Italy) this Spring.We have received sixtythree manuscripts out of which about one third were accepted by the reviewers. …”

“…In 1982, twelve good men and true (including one woman) got together over a (few) bottles of wine and decided to form a scientific body dedicated to promoting the interests of computing research in this country. …”

“…Based on the recommendation of the program committee, we selected one paper for the recipient of the Best Paper Award and one as the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award. …”

“…Across all cities, about 40 million people (0.6% of the global population or roughly 1 in 10 of the total port city population in the cities considered here) are exposed to a 1 in 100 year coastal flood event. …”

“…Whichever one he "feeds" will grow. In this delightfully illustrated business fable, the big dog teaches the negative dog how to feed positivity each day. …”