His first paid job ever was to write a traffic simulator for school kids. Ultimately this tool was used by 100,000's of children. His thesis was about modelling car driver behaviour using Soar, an advanced learning production system. After his thesis he worked for 12 years in a Dutch telecom research lab, focussing on intelligent telecom services. In addition he was a part-time professor at the Industrial Design faculty of the Technical University of Delft, focussing on research in intelligent user interfaces and teaching systems architecture. Currently he is the directory of engineering at Franz.<br><br>