Margaret A. Boden OBE ScD FBA is Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, where she helped develop the world’s first academic programme in cognitive science. She holds degrees in medical sciences, philosophy, and psychology, and integrates these disciplines with AI in her research.
She is a Fellow of the British Academy, and of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (and its British and European equivalents).
Her work has been translated into twenty languages. Her books include The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms(1990/2004) and Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science (2006). (AI, Its Nature and Future is in press.)
Professor Boden is an external advisor for the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.
Can AI be creative? CogX 2018 – Panel Video recording of panel hosted by Sarah Dillon and featuring Maggie Boden, Dennis Mortensen CEO and Co-Founder, X.ai and David Hanson CEO and Founder, Hanson Robotics. Download Video Recording
The Margaret Boden Lecture 2018: The Future of Intelligence: What matters? Speaker: Professor Margaret A. Boden (University of Sussex). Inaugural Lecture of the Margaret Boden Lecture series at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence Date: 5 June 2018Venue: Cambridge Union Society (part of the Varieties of Mind Conference) Abstract A fundamental difference between AI […]
The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Views from History (29 November 2018) Video recording of panel discussion before a public audience at the Babbage Lecture Theatre, University of Cambridge. Panel Members: Sarah Dillon (Chair)Simon Schaffer (University of Cambridge)Murray Shanahan (DeepMind, Imperial)Margaret A. Boden (University of Sussex)Nathan Ensmenger (Indiana University) Pamela McCorduck (author of Machines Who Think, […]
