Welcome to my GitHub Pages site with links to my recent articles, selected videos and papers.
Recent Articles
Selected posts and articles:
- Why Science needs Faith (LinkedIn, 01/19/2026)
- Careers, Control, and the Illusion of a Straight Path (LinkedIn,12/28/2025)
- Teaching Entrepreneurially: Accounting Vibes (LinkedIn, 12/15/2025)
- Democratizing Data: Three Curriculum Ideas (LinkedIn, 11/27/2025)
- Teaching Machines To Teach Like Humans (LinkedIn, 11/18/2025)
- Learning the Language of Abstraction (LinkedIn, 11/11/2025)
- How Online Learning Shaped My Classroom (LinkedIn, 11/7/2025)
- Leaving the Bubble - AI in Higher Education (LinkedIn, 09/26/2025)
- Truth Matters: New paper on AI and Research (LinkedIn, 09/15/2025)
- Ten Simple C++ Warmup Programs (LinkedIn, 09/01/2025)
Selected Papers
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Birkenkrahe, M. (2025). Truth Matters: Generative AI as Muse or Tool in the Research Process. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Research, 5(3), 7–14. DOI. PDF.
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Del Gobbo, C., Birkenkrahe, M., Yonts, N,. and Beal, W. (2024). Automated Assessments of Artefacts using Artificial Intelligence. In: Proc. 17th Annual Int. Conf. on Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2024), 11-13 November 2024, 1431-1439; DOI. PDF.
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Birkenkrahe, M. (2023). Teaching Data Science with Literate Programming Tools. In: Digital 2023, 3(3), 232-250; URL: DOI.
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Khan, A. and Birkenkrahe, M. (2022). Development of a Usability Testing Procedure for Process Mining Tools. In: International Journal of Data Science 7(2), 142-163. DOI. PDF.
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Birkenkrahe, M. (2014). Using Storytelling Methods To Improve Emotion, Motivation and Attitude Of Students Writing Scientific Papers And Theses. In: Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Int. Conf. on Cognitive Informatics & Cognitive Computing, London, August 18-20, 2014. DOI. PDF.
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Birkenkrahe, M., Mundt, M. (2009). From crisis to creativity: undergraduates craft their own online learning modules. In: International Journal of Innovation in Education, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2009), pp. 96-119. DOI. PDF.
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Birkenkrahe, M. (2008). System constellations as tool supporting organisational learning and change processes. In: International Journal of Learning and Change, Vol. 3, No. 3 (2008), pp. 125-144. DOI. PDF.
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Birkenkrahe, M. (2002). How Large Multi-Nationals Manage Their Knowledge“. In: University of Auckland Business Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2002), pp. 2-12, September 2002 (“Best Paper 2002”). (PDF)
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Speh, M. and Dinnell, C (1995). C++ and the World-Wide Web. C++ Report, SIGS Publications Group, January/February 1995 (PDF).
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Bäker, M., Mack, G., Speh, M. (1992). Multigrid meets neural nets. In: Proceedings of the Int. Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, Amsterdam, 15-19 Sep 1992; J. Smit and P. van Baal (eds), Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 30 (1993) p. 269. (PDF)
For a list of all my papers, see my full CV, Google Scholar, iNSPIRE HEP. Some papers are also hosted at researchgate.net. See also: ORCID.
Selected Talks and Interviews
For a list of all my videos, see my YouTube channel, @LiterateProgramming.
- Generative AI as Muse or Tool in the Research Process (06/27/2025)
- Teaching data science with literate programming tools (03/22/24)
- Creating BPMN models from pseudocode (03/31/2024)
- New Majors Coming To Lyon (Birkenkrahe & Dall’Olio) (03/24/2025)
- Data Science & Social Media? Careers in Data Science (02/05/2024)
- Your first literate C program with Emacs and Org-mode (01/20/2024)
Selected Animations
These are short animations created with the help of Grok:
Hieronymus Bosch, Concert in the Egg (1475).
Pieter Breughel the Elder, The Blind Leading The Blind (1568).
Eduard von Grützner, Drei Mönche bei der Brotzeit (1885).
Max Ernst, Une Semaine de Bonté ou les Sept éléments capitaux (1933).
St. Paul consigns his letters to St. Timothy and St. Titus (1180).
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Le maître d’ecole (1755).
About
I am an IT and data science leader and educator with more than 20 years of experience across industry, academia, and executive coaching. My career has ranged from directing global IT and knowledge management programs at Fortune 500 companies, to building a data science program in the U.S., to coaching senior executives in leadership and change. I hold a PhD in theoretical physics and serve as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Data Science and on the editorial boards of journals in big data and learning & change. Published 60+ works in journals, proceedings, and professional media. Invited speaker at 50+ international conferences and executive events on AI, data, and enterprise strategy (full CV). I am an enthusiastic member of the Gregorian Schola and Choir at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Cabot AR, an Associate Professor of Computer and Data Science at Lyon College, Batesville, AR, and I also teach computer and data science at Catholic Polytechnic University, CA.