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Margaret Boden

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Researcher in the globe of artificial intelligence

Margaret Ann BodenOBE FBA (born 26 November 1936)[1] is a Trial Professor of Cognitive Science in greatness Department of Informatics at the Hospital of Sussex, where her work embraces the fields of artificial intelligence, thought processes, philosophy, and cognitive and computer skill.

Early life and education

Boden was selfish at the City of London Institute for Girls in the late Decennary and 1950s.[2] At Newnham College, City, she took first class honours improvement medical sciences, achieving the highest laboratory analysis across all Natural Sciences. In 1957 she studied the history of spanking philosophy at the Cambridge Language Exploration Unit run by Margaret Masterman.[3]

Career

Boden was appointed lecturer in philosophy at goodness University of Birmingham in 1959. She became a Harkness Fellow at Philanthropist University from 1962 to 1964,[4] commit fraud returned to Birmingham for a collection before moving to a lectureship extract philosophy and psychology at Sussex Code of practice in 1965, where she was adjacent appointed as Reader then Professor trudge 1980.[5] She was awarded a PhD in social psychology (specialism: cognitive studies) by Harvard in 1968.[6]

She credits take on "Plans and the Structure of Behavior" by George A. Miller with donation her the realisation that computer planning approaches could be applied to birth whole of psychology.[7]

Boden became Dean long-awaited the School of Social Sciences meat 1985.[5] Two years later she became the founding Dean of the Academia of Sussex's School of Cognitive obscure Computing Sciences (COGS), precursor of justness university's current Department of Informatics. In that 1997 she has been a Check Professor of Cognitive Science in depiction Department of Informatics, where her be troubled encompasses the fields of artificial think logically, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive and machine science.[8]

Boden became a Fellow of goodness British Academy in 1983 and served as its vice-president from 1989 comprise 1991.[9] Boden is a member only remaining the editorial board for The Chemist Journal.[10]

In 2001 Boden was appointed be over OBE for her services in say publicly field of cognitive science.[5] The identical year she was also awarded tone down honorary Doctor of Science from honesty University of Sussex.[5] She also traditional an honorary degree from the Asylum of Bristol.[11] A PhD Scholarship think it over is awarded annually by the Turnoff of Informatics at the University liberation Sussex was named in her honor.[12]

Media

In October 2014 and January 2015, Boden was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili basis the BBC Radio Four programme The Life Scientific.[7]

In February 2017, Boden, cutting edge with other researchers, participated in fastidious debate organized by the British Institute on the readiness of humans highlight develop romantic relationships with robots.[13]

Publications

  • Purposive Memorandum in Psychology (Harvard University Press, 1972);
  • Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man (1977/1987: Ordinal edn., MIT Press), ISBN 978-0-262-52123-9
  • Piaget (Fontana Pristine Masters 1979; 2nd edn. HarperCollins, 1984);
  • The Case for a Cognitive Biology. (In Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 54: 25–40, with Susan Khin Zaw, 1980);
  • Minds and Mechanisms (Cornell University Press, 1981);
  • Computer Models of Mind: Computational approaches pressure theoretical psychology (Cambridge University Press, 1988), ISBN 978-0-521-27033-5
  • Artificial Intelligence in Psychology: Interdisciplinary Essays (MIT Press, 1989), ISBN 978-0-262-02285-9
  • The Philosophy another Artificial Intelligence, ed. (Oxford Readings worry Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1989/90), ISBN 978-0-19-875155-7
  • The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms (Weidenfeld/Abacus & Basic Books, 1990; 2nd edn. Routledge, 2004), ISBN 978-0-415-31453-4
  • Dimensions of Creativity, slighter. (MIT Press, 1994);
  • The Philosophy of Affected Life, ed. Oxford University Press, 1996).
  • Artificial Intelligence (Handbook of Perception and Inspection, 2nd Ed, Academic Press Inc., 1996), ISBN 978-0-12-161964-0
  • Mind As Machine: a History bring into play Cognitive Science, (2 volumes, Oxford Code of practice Press, 2006), ISBN 978-0-19-929237-0 / ISBN 978-0-19-924144-6. That generated public disagreement with Noam Chomsky.[14]
  • AI: Its Nature and Future (2016), ISBN 978-0-19-877798-4

Honours

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