This book is a detailed, empirical investigation into the question of whether academic social research can compete with the commercial sector, with its new technologies and big data, in order to classify, profile, and understand us.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Sign and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL 2023), hosted by the 24th Annual Con- ference of The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023). This workshop is a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages.

The function of cognitive communication is to enable people and machines to acquire knowledge. The gain in knowledge lies in the information gained from the signals received. The links between information theoretical entropy and thermodynamic entropy and energy are explained in detail.

This series of booklets is particularly valuable for lecturers and students of communication and cognitive sciences and border areas, as well as brain researchers, philosophers, media technicians, linguists and...

If you look back, you slow down and they catch up.

If you look down, you'll trip over a lot of trash thrown your way.

But if you look up, you will always see the endless sky. That tight feeling you get when you start something new. The burning muscles during training, the lump in your stomach during an im-portant meeting, the feeling of hunger during a diet: these may seem like sig-nals to stop.

The majority - with almost negligible exceptions - save themselves from life. They tiptoe through...