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
A decision support system about how to invest your valuable time.Visit the todoListo websiteRecent Activities
November 2025
Reviews for the Horizon Europe programme of the European Commission
September 2025
I am teaching at the Adult Education Center in Dingolfing
September 2025
Reviewing for Advances in Cognitive Systems
August 2025
Congratulations to Tyler Olson on finishing his Master's thesis at TU Delft. I was happy to be part of the examination committee.
June 2025
New blog post: The Agile Mindset
June 2024
Member of Program Committee for the 38th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR)
January 2025
My new online workshop: Get Organized in 7 Days is online and available free of charge.
November 2024
Congratulations to Benedikt Beuttler on finishing his PhD thesis, which I had the honor of supervising as second examiner.
August 2024
Congratulations to Juan Purcalla on finishing his PhD thesis, which I had the honor of supervising.
July 2024
DEKRA certification as IT expert
March 2024
Member of Program Committee for the 37th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR)
February 2024
New blog series: My todoListo Adventure
January 2024
Alex Kirsch IT GmbH finally has a website (any similarities to this website are purely coincidental 😉).
December 2023
After zwei years of work todoListo is published!
August 2023
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.
April 2023
New blog post: ChatGPT: dangerous or only useless?
November 2022
New blog post: How AI can save science
October 2022
Founding of my own company:
Alex Kirsch IT GmbH!
Alex Kirsch IT GmbH!
September 2022
Reviewing for Advances in Cognitive Systems
April 2022
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.
March 2022
After a year of planning and replanning, the Interdisciplinary College 2022 finally takes place between March 7 and 17!
February 2022
New blog series: Facets of Decision Making
January 2022
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).
November 2021
As part of the Tech:Lounge Winter Edition by the native web I teach three webinars about Artificial Intelligence (in German).
October 2021
My first Youtube appearance: a Podcast about Ethics and AI by the native web (in German).
October 2021
New blog post: The Machinery of Intelligence
September 2021
Review of a joint research effort for the European Commission.
August 2021
I am now a fulltime freelancer and therefore available for more extensive projects!
July 2021
New blog series: Goals Considered Harmful
Mai 2021
New blog post: The Two Worlds of Machine Learning
April 2021
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!
January 2021
Together with Celmens Beckstein I contributed the Chapter on AI Search in the lately released "Handbuch der künstlichen Intelligenz".
December 2020
New blog series: Agile, Design and Buddhism
December 2020
Congratulations to Heiko Holz on finishing his PhD thesis, which I had the honor of supervising as second examiner.
October 2020
Review of a joint research effort for the European Commission.
Mai 2020
Publication of a book chapter with Volker Strobel: MyPDDL: Tools for Efficiently Creating PDDL Domains and Problems
December 2019
My paper Shakey Ever After? Questioning Tacit Assumptions in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence was published in Künstliche Intelligenz.
October 2019
I gave a presentation about the state of autonomous driving in a session on Ethics and Legislation of Autonomous Systems in Würzburg.