Margaret Boden

Margaret Boden (2015)

Margaret Ann Boden (born November 26, 1936 in London ) is a British cognitive scientist and author of books on artificial intelligence and its connection with philosophy and psychology (creativity) to art .

Boden attended the City of London School for Girls and studied medicine and science and philosophy at Cambridge University (Newnham College). She received her PhD in social psychology from Harvard University in 1968. Boden was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Birmingham from 1959 and at the University of Sussex from 1965 , where she became Professor of Philosophy and Psychology in 1980 and Founding Dean of the School of Cognitive Science and Computing Science (COGS) in 1987. She has been research professor for cognitive science there since 1997.

From 1962 to 1964 she was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard.

She is a fellow of the AAAI and the British Academy , a member of the Academia Europaea and OBE . From 1993 to 1996 she chaired the Council of the Royal Institution . She received the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award for 2017 and the Barwise Award for 2019.

Fonts

• Artificial intelligence and natural man, 1977, 2nd edition, Basic Books 1987
• Piaget, Fontana 1985 (Fontana modern masters)
• Computer Models of mind: computational approaches in theoretical psychology, Cambridge UP 1988
• The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms, 1990, 2004
  • German translation: The wings of the mind: Creativity and artificial intelligence, Munich: Artemis and Winkler 1992 (Paperback: dtv 1995. ISBN 342330457X )
• Editor: The philosophy of artificial intelligence, Oxford UP 1990
• Editor: Artificial Intelligence, Handbook of perception and cognition, Academic Press 1996
• Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science, Clarendon Press, 2 volumes, 2006
• Creativity and art. Three roads to surprise, Oxford UP 2010
• AI, Its Nature and Future, Oxford UP 2016

Web links

• University of Sussex website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography at the Royal Institution