Boden

Margaret Boden (Research Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex)

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 AI and cognitive science. She holds degrees in medical sciences, philosophy, and psychology (as well as a Harvard PhD, a Cambridge ScD, and three honorary doctorates), and integrates these disciplines with AI in her research, which has been translated into twenty languages. Her recent books include The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms (2004); Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science (2006); and Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise (2010). She has two children and four grandchildren, and lives in Brighton.

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