Margaret Ann Boden was born on 26 November 1936 and is a Research Professor of Cognitive Science in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex, where her work embraces the fields of artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, and cognitive and computer science.
11 Facts About Margaret Boden
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Margaret Boden was appointed lecturer in philosophy at the University of Birmingham in 1959.
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Margaret Boden became a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University from 1962 to 1964, then returned to Birmingham for a year before moving to a lectureship in philosophy and psychology at Sussex University in 1965, where she was later appointed as Reader then Professor in 1980.
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Margaret Boden was awarded a PhD in social psychology by Harvard in 1968.
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Margaret Boden credits reading "Plans and the Structure of Behavior" by George A Miller with giving her the realisation that computer programming approaches could be applied to the whole of psychology.
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Margaret Boden became Dean of the School of Social Sciences in 1985.
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Margaret Boden became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1983 and served as its vice-president from 1989 to 1991.
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Margaret Boden is a member of the editorial board for The Rutherford Journal.
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In 2001 Margaret Boden was appointed an OBE for her services in the field of cognitive science.
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Margaret Boden received an honorary degree from the University of Bristol.
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In October 2014 and January 2015, Margaret Boden was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on the BBC Radio Four programme The Life Scientific.