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Dr. Susanne Janeba

DR. SUSANNE JANEBA Humans and Machines, interacting. Susanne's life is full of that. Including the question of how to best interact with machines. With not defining how, but defining 'best' being the true challenge, at an individual as well as an collective level. Examples include facing the challenge head on to be one of only two girls in the Leistungskurs Informatik, working on the roll-out of 'remote services' to Sun Microsystems servers, when some still used dial-up to connect to the internet, just as much as finding ways to price the use of computing power at the onset of Utility Computing (today known as Cloud Computing). Each and everytime getting started with an idea of the direction was crucial, knowing full well that afterwards it was all about repeatedly iterating the understanding of intention (why) as well as shaping interaction (how). Technology will provide us with options. As humans we are the ones required to imagine the way forward in order to be able to shape our lives, our companies, our society. Decisions such as marrying someone she had met only 18 months earlier, quitting her academic job at the University of Bonn, moving to the US, first Indiana, then Colorado, bringing three new lives into this world, leaving the academic world to join IT and quitting again to join VORSPRUNGatwork, those decisions came easy to her. Decisions such as picking one kind of strawberry jam when there is a choice of 30.. those are real hard for Susanne. Making the most of the human-machine interaction, particularly in the decision space.