Margaret A. Boden is Professor of Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Sussex. She was the founding-Dean of Sussex University's School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, a pioneering center for research into intelligence and the mechanisms underlying it--in humans, other animals, or machines. Professor Boden holds the following academic honors, by election: Fellow (and former Vice-President) of the British Academy--and Chairman of their Philosophy Section until July 2002, Member of the Academia Europaea, Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), Life Fellow of the UK's Society for Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behavior, Member of Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, Former Vice-President (and Chairman of Council) of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

Outside Sussex, she has lectured widely, to both specialized and general audiences, in North and South America, Europe, India, the USSR, and the Pacific. She has also appeared on many radio/TV programs, in the UK and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into sixteen foreign languages.

At present, she is writing a book on the history of cognitive science. Her previous books include: Purposive Explanation In Psychology (Harvard University Press, 1972); Artificial Intelligence And Natural Man (1977/1987: 2nd ed., MIT Press); Piaget (Fontana Modern Masters 1979; 2nd ed. Harper Collins, 1984); Minds And Mechanisms (Cornell University Press, 1981); Computer Models Of Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1988); Artificial Intelligence In Psychology (MIT Press, 1989); The Philosophy Of Artificial Intelligence, ed. (Oxford University Press, 1989/90); The Creative Mind (Weidenfeld/Abacus & Basic Books, 1990); Dimensions Of Creativity, ed. (MIT Press, 1994); The Philosophy Of Artificial Life, ed. Oxford University Press, 1996).

These are all highly interdisciplinary, reflecting her own academic background. She holds independent qualifications in medical sciences, philosophy, and psychology (including a PhD from Harvard and an ScD from Cambridge).