Alex Kirsch
Independent Scientist
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I am an IT consultant, coach, software architect, UX designer, programmer, as well as a teacher and scientist.

Everything I do is connected to decision-making:
How do you make good decisions? Which (software) tools support good decisions? What is a good decision in the first place?

Technical debt?

One-sided decisions to prioritise new features over stability can be fatal. But it is never to late to rescue software from complete collapse.My consulting services

Should we use AI?

Nobody wants to miss the big AI revolution. But chasing after a trend without a cost-benefit analysis, can become an expensive adventure.My expertise on AI
todoListo LogoA decision support system about how to invest your valuable time.Visit the todoListo website

Recent Activities

New blog post: How to Kill a Myth
I was honored to be part of the jury for the EU Prize for Women Innovators 2026. Congratulations not only to the winners, but to all those wonderful women who I could get to know through this assignment.
Presentation Why machine learning is no magic at tech:lounge Live!
Reviews for the Horizon Europe programme of the European Commission
I am teaching at the Adult Education Center in Dingolfing
Congratulations to Tyler Olson on finishing his Master's thesis at TU Delft. I was happy to be part of the examination committee.
New blog post: The Agile Mindset
My new online workshop: Get Organized in 7 Days is online and available free of charge.
Congratulations to Benedikt Beuttler on finishing his PhD thesis, which I had the honor of supervising as second examiner.
Congratulations to Juan Purcalla on finishing his PhD thesis, which I had the honor of supervising.
DEKRA certification as IT expert
New blog series: My todoListo Adventure
Alex Kirsch IT GmbH finally has a website (any similarities to this website are purely coincidental 😉).
After zwei years of work todoListo is published!
Two papers accepted on one day! The role of story-based categorizations in motion classification, with Frank Papenmeier and Juan Purcalla, will be published in the journal Cognitive Science. AI Birds: Obstacles for Reaching Human-Level Performance and a New Role for Qualitative Reasoning, with Diedrich Wolter and Felix Haase, will be presented end of September at the International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning.
Founding of my own company:
Alex Kirsch IT GmbH!
I am happy to be part of the organizing committee of the workshop Robust AI for High-Stakes Applications. The workshop will be held in conjunction with KI 2022 in September 2022.
After a year of planning and replanning, the Interdisciplinary College 2022 finally takes place between March 7 and 17!
New blog series: Facets of Decision Making
As part of the Tech:Lounge Winter Edition by the native web I give short introductions on Lisp and Prolog in the webinar about advanced language concepts (in German).
As part of the Tech:Lounge Winter Edition by the native web I teach three webinars about Artificial Intelligence (in German).
My first Youtube appearance: a Podcast about Ethics and AI by the native web (in German).
Review of a joint research effort for the European Commission.
I am now a fulltime freelancer and therefore available for more extensive projects!
New blog series: Goals Considered Harmful
I have been appointed as one of the chairs for the Interdisciplinary College 2022! I am looking forward to shaping this wonderful with Jutta Kretzberg, Marieke van Vugt and the organising team!
Together with Celmens Beckstein I contributed the Chapter on AI Search in the lately released "Handbuch der künstlichen Intelligenz".
Congratulations to Heiko Holz on finishing his PhD thesis, which I had the honor of supervising as second examiner.
Review of a joint research effort for the European Commission.
Publication of a book chapter with Volker Strobel: MyPDDL: Tools for Efficiently Creating PDDL Domains and Problems
My paper Shakey Ever After? Questioning Tacit Assumptions in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence was published in Künstliche Intelligenz.
I gave a presentation about the state of autonomous driving in a session on Ethics and Legislation of Autonomous Systems in Würzburg.