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 cognitive science. She holds degrees in medical sciences, philosophy, and psychology, and integrates these disciplines with AI in her research.

She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Association for the
Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and scientific adviser to the Centre for the Future of Intelligence (University of Cambridge) and to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI.

Her work has been translated into twenty languages. Her books include The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms (1990/2004); Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science (2006); and AI, Its Nature and Future (2016).

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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 cognitive science. She holds degrees in medical sciences, philosophy, and psychology, and integrates these disciplines with AI in her research.

She is a past vice-president of the British Academy, past Chair of Council
of the Royal Institution, and an elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (and of its British and European equivalents). She has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the International Association for Computing and Philosophy and the International Society for Artificial Life.

She is scientific adviser to the Centre for the Future of Intelligence (University of Cambridge) and to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI.

Her work has been translated into twenty languages, and she has lectured widely, to specialist and general audiences, around the world. She was the subject of BBC Radio-4’s The Life Scientific in October 2014.

Her recent books include The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms (1990/2004); Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science (2006); Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise (2010); and AI, Its Nature and Future (2016).

She has two children and four grandchildren, and lives in Brighton.