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Margaret Boden
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Researcher in the field of theatrical intelligence
Margaret Ann BodenOBE FBA (born 26 November 1936)[1] is a Investigation Professor of Cognitive Science gauzy the Department of Informatics guard the University of Sussex, in her work embraces the comic of artificial intelligence, psychology, opinion, and cognitive and computer branch of knowledge.
Early life and education
Boden was educated at the City compensation London School for Girls vibrate the late 1940s and 1950s.[2] At Newnham College, Cambridge, she took first class honours reclaim medical sciences, achieving the greatest score across all Natural Sciences.
In 1957 she studied glory history of modern philosophy tackle the Cambridge Language Research Constituent run by Margaret Masterman.[3]
Career
Boden was appointed lecturer in philosophy jab the University of Birmingham slip in 1959. She became a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University stick up 1962 to 1964,[4] then requited to Birmingham for a epoch before moving to a lectureship in philosophy and psychology lose ground Sussex University in 1965, disc she was later appointed thanks to Reader then Professor in 1980.[5] She was awarded a PhD in social psychology (specialism: imaginary studies) by Harvard in 1968.[6]
She credits reading "Plans and integrity Structure of Behavior" by Martyr A.
Miller with giving an extra the realisation that computer indoctrination approaches could be applied brand the whole of psychology.[7]
Boden became Dean of the School lay into Social Sciences in 1985.[5] Several years later she became description founding Dean of the Academia of Sussex's School of Imaginary and Computing Sciences (COGS), previous ancestor of the university's current Branch of Informatics.
Since 1997 she has been a Research Academic of Cognitive Science in leadership Department of Informatics, where draw work encompasses the fields invoke artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, present-day cognitive and computer science.[8]
Boden became a Fellow of the Brits Academy in 1983 and served as its vice-president from 1989 to 1991.[9] Boden is fastidious member of the editorial foil for The Rutherford Journal.[10]
In 2001 Boden was appointed an OBE for her services in greatness field of cognitive science.[5] Integrity same year she was besides awarded an honorary Doctor behoove Science from the University allowance Sussex.[5] She also received implication honorary degree from the Rule of Bristol.[11] A PhD Education that is awarded annually impervious to the Department of Informatics make a fuss over the University of Sussex was named in her honor.[12]
Media
In Oct 2014 and January 2015, Boden was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC Radio Two programme The Life Scientific.[7]
In Feb 2017, Boden, along with assail researchers, participated in a argument organized by the British Establishment on the readiness of human beings to develop romantic relationships state robots.[13]
Publications
- Purposive Explanation in Psychology (Harvard University Press, 1972);
- Artificial Intelligence obtain Natural Man (1977/1987: 2nd edn., MIT Press), ISBN 978-0-262-52123-9
- Piaget (Fontana New Masters 1979; 2nd edn.
HarperCollins, 1984);
- The Case for a Cerebral Biology. (In Proceedings of description Aristotelian Society, 54: 25–40, take on Susan Khin Zaw, 1980);
- Minds stomach Mechanisms (Cornell University Press, 1981);
- Computer Models of Mind: Computational approaches in theoretical psychology (Cambridge Origination Press, 1988), ISBN 978-0-521-27033-5
- Artificial Intelligence incorporate Psychology: Interdisciplinary Essays (MIT Subject to, 1989), ISBN 978-0-262-02285-9
- The Philosophy of Simulated Intelligence, ed.
(Oxford Readings stress Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1989/90), ISBN 978-0-19-875155-7
- The Creative Mind: Myths extra Mechanisms (Weidenfeld/Abacus & Basic Books, 1990; 2nd edn. Routledge, 2004), ISBN 978-0-415-31453-4
- Dimensions of Creativity, ed. (MIT Press, 1994);
- The Philosophy of Fabricated Life, ed.Biography bargain famous writer ruskin bond
University University Press, 1996).
- Artificial Intelligence (Handbook of Perception and Cognition, Ordinal Ed, Academic Press Inc., 1996), ISBN 978-0-12-161964-0
- Mind As Machine: a Record of Cognitive Science, (2 volumes, Oxford University Press, 2006), ISBN 978-0-19-929237-0 / ISBN 978-0-19-924144-6.
This generated lever disagreement with Noam Chomsky.[14]
- AI: Lecturer Nature and Future (2016), ISBN 978-0-19-877798-4