He added that it was "a political decision and the youth have to agree with this," referring to a generation of East Timorese who grew up during the Indonesian occupation of the territory, which began in 1975 and ended last year.
The term's original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their collective debt to either the musical style, or simply the independent, D.I.Y. ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music.
Computer Aided Synthesis refers to a next generation computational tools that automates the process of generating candidate solutions to ill-defined design problems.
Dr. Shikaki was referring to a rising generation of Palestinian leaders he calls the young guard.
Mr. O'Reilly is credited with coining the phrase "Web 2.0," which refers to a new generation of Web sites that encourage users to contribute material.
"We refer to a 'Net generation' these days," said Garland C. Elmore, associate vice president, dean of information technology and associate professor of informatics and communication at Indiana University in Indianapolis and Bloomington.
"The young customers we have now are, like, really hip kids," Mr. McNairy once told The New York Times, referring to a new generation of J. Press customers, the same ones he presumably plans to attract in his new job as Mr. Suzuki's successor at Woolrich.
Prensky's work (Prensky, 2001) is considered a classic as he coined the term "digital natives" to refer to a new generation that has grown up with technologies and for which the term "new" almost seems senseless.
Many studies refer to a lost generation in Europe where young people aged 15 to 24 who are not in employment, education, or training (NEETs) make up 13%% of the population [30].
Smart computing refers to "a new generation of integrated hardware, software, and network technologies that provide IT systems with real-time awareness of the real world and advanced analytics to help people make more intelligent decisions about alternatives and actions that will optimize business processes and business balance sheet results".
