Dr Margaret A. Boden, OBE, (born 26 November 1936) is a combinative researcher in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Philosophy, Cognitive and Computer Science. Currently Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex, Dr Boden was the founding-Dean of the university's School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences (COGS), precursor of the university's current Department of Informatics. Educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she took first class honors in medical sciences and in the history of modern philosophy, she later earned a Ph.D. in social psychology in 1968 from Harvard University.
Her book Mind As Machine generated controversy with Noam Chomsky.
In April 2004, Dr Boden was awarded an Honorary Degree by the Open University as Doctor of the University.
Interview with Margaret Boden at FHI - Winter Intelligence conference.
- Interest AI that helps inspire answers to questions about the mind, especially creativity (in art, science, and railway cartridges) - Would you normally think about AI and how it informs our understanding of our own minds, or the other way around?
- Approaches to AI inspired by Neuroscience - Does it mean that if neuro-inspired AI is neuroscience, does it mean that neural-nets are close to how the brain works?
- What are the right questions to ask when determining the right areas to research in AGI? What goes on in the Cerebral Cortex? What sorts of computation is the brain performing that give rise to certain types of behavior?
- Autism, and Theory of Mind. A great example in Psychology done right - where the right questions were being asked.
- Progress in AI in some areas have been fast.
- AI interpreting poetry - interpretations of meaning - the richness of subtlety of human thinking expressed in language
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