Publications

This is a full list of all of my publications.

Refereed Papers

• Benton, M. C., Radziwill, N. M., Purritano, A. W., & Gerhart, C. J. (2018). Blockchain for Supply Chain: Improving Transparency and Efficiency Simultaneously. Software Quality Professional, 20(3), p28-38.
• Benton, M. C. & Radziwill, N. M. (2017). Quality and Innovation with Blockchain Technology. Software Quality Professional, 20(1), p35-44.
• Radziwill, N. M. & Benton, M. C., 2017: Design for X (DfX) in the Internet of Things (IoT). Journal of Quality Management Systems, Applied Engineering, & Technology Management (JoQAT). 2017(1).
• Radziwill, N. M. & Benton, M. C., 2017: Bot or Not? Using Recurrence Maps to Characterize Tweet Interarrival Patterns. Accepted and in revision at Social Media and Society.
• Radziwill, N. M. & Benton, M. C., 2017: Evaluating Quality of Chatbots and Intelligent Conversational Agents. Software Quality Professional, June.
• Benton, M. C. & Radziwill, N.M., 2016: Merit Pay in Higher Education: Rationale, Unintended Consequences, and Alternatives. Journal for Quality and Participation, October.
• Benton, M. C. & Radziwill, N.M., 2016: Digging More Deeply into Behaviorism. Journal for Quality and Participation, 39, online supplement.
• Benton, M. C. & Radziwill, N.M., 2016: Improving Testability and Reuse by Transitioning to Functional Programming. Software Quality Professional, June.
• Radziwill, N. M., Benton, M. C., Boadu, K., & Perdomo, W., 2015: A Case-Based Look at Integrating Social Context into Software Quality. Software Quality Professional, December.
• Radziwill, N. M., Romano, J., Shorter, D., & Benton, M.C., 2015: The Ethics of Hacking - Should it be Taught? Software Quality Professional, December.
• Radziwill, N. M., Benton, M. C., & Moellers, C. 2015: From STEM to STEAM: Reframing What it Means to Learn. The STEAM Journal (Claremont, CA), July.
• Radziwill, N. M. & Benton, M. C., 2013: Burning Man - Quality and Innovation in the Spirit of Deming. Journal for Quality and Participation, April.
• Benton, M. C. (2008). The development and evaluation of software to foster professional development in educational assessment. Ph.D. Dissertation, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 295 pp., AAT 3443059. Available from ProQuest
• Keith, Cameron. (2008) Student Attitudes and Behavior on File Sharing, paper published at published at NCUR as a result of class project in ISAT 440 from spring 2007. Mentored by Morgan Benton.
• Benton, M. C. (2002). Standards 101, A tutorial for IT managers. Journal of the Standards Engineering Society, 54(1&2), 10-15.

National or International Conference Proceedings or Presentations

• Radziwill, N. M., & Benton, M. C. 2018: Cryptocurrencies & Blockchain: A Recipe for Disruptive Innovation in Quality and Supply Chains. ASQ World Conference, Seattle, WA, 4/29-5/2.
• Radziwill, N. M. & Benton, M. C., 2017: Neurodiversity Secrets for Innovation & Design, SXSW 2017, Austin TX, 2017-Mar-12
• Radziwill, N. M. & Benton, M. C., 2016: Design for Neurodiversity (DfN*): A Design for X Process for Alternative Cognitive Styles. HASTAC, Phoenix AZ, May 13.
• Benton, M. C. & Radziwill, N. M., 2016: Choose Your Own Grade: Instructional Civil Disobedience. HASTAC, Phoenix AZ, May 12.
• Radziwill, N. M. & Benton, M. C., 2016: The Future of Quality: Cognitive Production, Ambient Intelligence, Smart Manufacturing, and Emergent Analytics. ASQ Boston Conference on Quality, Boston MA, April 11.
• Benton, M. C. & Radziwill, N. M., 2015: The 10 Principles in Education. IAMU Networking Executive Session, Washington DC, April 30.
• Benton, M. C. & Radziwill, N. M., 2015: The 10 Principles in Education. Burning Man Census Lab Conference, Black Rock City NV, September 2.
• Benton, M. C. 2015. The Source of Innovation: Empathy, Gifts, & the 10 Principles. ASQ Innovation Division Conference, Charlottesville, VA, 2015 Sep 18-20.
• Radziwill, N. M. & Benton, M. C., 2014: The 10 Principles: A New Paradigm for Collaboration and Innovation. IAJC/ISAM International Conference, Orlando FL, September 26.
• Radziwill, N. M. & Benton, M. C., 2014: Pseudoscience in the Era of Big Data. Center Camp Speaker Series, Burning Man, Black Rock City NV, August 26.
• Radziwill, N. M. & Benton, M. C., 2013: The Burning Mind Project--Creating a Culture of Radical Innovation in Technology Education. ATMAE Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 21.
• Radziwill, N. M. & Benton, M.C. 2012: Agile Software Development and the Learning Organization. Invited Speaker, ASQ North Jersey Spring Quality Conference, April 5.
• Benton, M. C., Pappas, E. & Pappas, J. (2011). WordPress+Qualtrics: A plugin supporting research and new pedagogy to develop personal sustainability via 360 degree evaluation. In Proc. 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Detroit MI, August 5.
• Benton, M. C. & Radziwill, N. M. (2011). A Path for exploring the Agile Organizing Framework in eechnology education. Agile 2011, Salt Lake City UT, August 9, 2011.
• Radziwill, N. M. & Benton, M. C., 2011: Applying the Agile Organizing Framework to Team Management. International Conference on Software Quality (ICSQ), San Diego CA, February 8, 2011.
• Benton, M. C. & N. M. Radziwill, 2010: Using the Agile Organizing Framework to Create Adaptive Learning Environments for Technology Development. ATMAE, Panama City Beach FL, October 29, 2010.
• Benton, M. C., & Tremaine, M. M. (2008). Systems analysis using the Transtheoretical Model of behavioral change: encouraging adoption of “best practices” over “standard practices”. In Proc. 14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Toronto ON, August 16.
• Benton, M. C., & Tremaine, M. M. (2008). QuesGen: clarifying the dimensions of multiple-choice question quality. In Proc. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New York City NY, March 26.
• Benton, M. C., Tremaine, M. M., & Scher, J. (2004). Computer aids for designing effective multiple choice questions. In Proc. 10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York City NY, August 15.
• Benton, M. C., Kim, E., Ngugi, B. (2002). Bridging the gap: from traditional information retrieval to the semantic web. In Proc. 8th Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York City NY, August 18.

Workshops

• Benton, M. C. & Radziwill, N. M., 2013: Bringing the 10 Principles to the Classroom. Burning Man Project Headquarters, San Francisco CA, March 6.
• Benton, M. C. & Radziwill, N. M., 2013: Less Work, Better Learning, More Fun! Effective Strategies for Teaching Without Grades. JMU Center for Faculty Innovation, Harrisonburg VA, May 6.
• Benton, M. C. & Haas, L. 2010: Getting to Know Your Classroom Climate. JMU Center for Faculty Innovation Faculty Workshop Series 2010-2011, October.

Book Chapters and Contributions

• Benton, M. C. & Radziwill, N. M. 2018: Designing Personal Sustainability into Organizational Culture: The Case of Burning Man. in The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability: Case Studies and Practical Solutions. Garren, S. & Brinkmann, R., Eds. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Contributed an interview on STEAM learning at Burning Man to:

• Bingham, T., & Conner, M. (2010). The new social learning: A guide to transforming organizations through social media. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Published Book Reviews

NOTE: I realize that some reviews appear twice. That is because SQP and QMJ are sister publications from the same publisher. The journals have non-overlapping audiences so the publisher likes to print them in more than one place.

• The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone. 2017. S. Sloman and P. Fernbach. New York: Penguin. 296 pages. [Published in Software Quality Professional, September 2017]
• Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity. 2016. Douglas Rushkoff. New York, NY: Portfolio/Penguin. 278 pages. [Published in Software Quality Professional, June 2017]
• The Code Economy. 2017. Philip E. Auerswald. New York, NY, Oxford University Press. 298 pages. [Published in Software Quality Professional, June 2017]
• The Code Economy. 2017. Philip E. Auerswald. New York, NY, Oxford University Press. 298 pages. [Published in Quality Management Journal, July 2017]
• The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies. 2014. Brynjolfsson, E., & McAfee, A. WW Norton & Company. [published in Quality Management Journal, July 2016]
• Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity. 2016. Douglas Rushkoff. New York, NY: Portfolio/Penguin. 278 pages. [Published in Quality Management Journal, July 2016]
• The end of average: How to succeed in a world that values sameness. 2016. Rose, T. Penguin UK. [Published in Quality Management Journal, April 2016]
• The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible. 2013. Charles Eisenstein. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books. 288 pages. [Published in Quality Management Journal, 2014]

Non-Refereed Blog Posts

The Burning Mind Project

• Preparing Students for a "Post-Work" Economy, 2016-Sep-10
• Do what you DON'T love, 2015-Sep-28
• 5 Ways Grades Kill the Motivation to Learn, 2015-Mar-11
• The Mother of All Token Economies: Why Grades ≠ Money, 2015-Mar-11
• What do you mean? How Grades Abuse Statistics, 2015-Mar-11
• Grades Suck, 2015-Mar-11
• Whose Objective Is It Anyway? 2015-Mar-11
• Students as "Free Range" Chickens, 2013-Mar-28
• At the Gates? 2013-Mar-4
• Seeding a Learning Community, 2013-Feb-2
• Balancing the Ten Principles--An Opportunity to Care? 2012-Nov-19
• Balancing the Ten Principles--A Roadmap? 2012-Nov-19
• Balancing the Ten Principles--Gifts from God? 2012-Nov-19
• Balancing the Ten Principles--Introduction, 2012-Nov-19
• A Manifesto of The Burning Mind Project, 2012-Oct-15

Morphatic

• Building a Collaborative 900-pixel App-Controlled LED Light Show: Part 2, 2018-Jul-27
• Building a Collaborative 900-pixel App-Controlled LED Light Show: Part 1, 2018-Jul-26
• Should I go to Japan to see the cherry blossoms? 2018-Jul-06
• Initializing Arrays In JavaScript WITHOUT Using Loops, 2018-May-25
• Installing Kafka and Zookeeper on Vagrant Ubuntu 16.04, 2018-Mar-11
• Setting up an API Testing Server with Ubuntu 16.04, Vagrant, VirtualBox, NodeJs and FeathersJs, 2017-Nov-15
• Setting up a Secure API Server on DigitalOcean using Node Express, Mongoose, MongoDB, and Auth0, 2017-Mar-26
• Creating a Vagrant Box for Strongloop Development with Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial)
• Creating a Filter Pipe for Angular 2 (in Ionic 2)
• Super-fast Secure WordPress Install on DigitalOcean with NGINX, PHP7, and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• DIY LED Bubble Tube: Part 6–First Test!
• DIY LED Bubble Tube: Part 5–Motor Control
• DIY LED Bubble Tube: Part 4–Tube Construction
• DIY LED Bubble Tube: Part 3–Designing the Base
• DIY LED Bubble Tube: Part 2–Programming
• DIY LED Bubble Tube: Part 1
• Your Very Own Shiny Server
• How I come up with domain names
• Finally! Free SSL Certs!!! Let’s Encrypt!
• Installing Laravel 5.1 at Digital Ocean with PHP 7
• Should You Use EAV?
• Do They Still Want To Do Math?
• Using OAuth for Managing User Accounts
• Should College Be Free?
• A new Morphatic