Margaret A. Boden
Margaret A. Boden researched cognitive science and computational creativity. She joined Sussex as a philosophy lecturer in 1965 and helped connect philosophy, psychology and computing through research and academic institutions. An AAAI Fellow from 1993, she used computing models to examine creativity in The Creative Mind, whose revised second edition appeared in 2004. She received the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award in 2017. She died in July 2025. Her work joined explanations of human thought with AI methods.
- Works
- 198
- Citations
- 9,768
- h-index
- 34
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1965
Interdisciplinary research at Sussex
Boden became a philosophy lecturer at Sussex in 1965. Her work connected psychology, philosophy and computing, and she helped develop cognitive-studies institutions.
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1993–2004
AI recognition and the creative mind
AAAI elected Boden a Fellow in 1993. Routledge published the second edition of The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms in 2004. The book examines creativity through computing models and examples from music, writing, games and science. It connects accounts of human thought with the mechanisms studied in AI.
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2017
Recognition for computational creativity
Boden received the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award in 2017. Her work covers computational creativity and creative cognition. Her contribution includes defining research questions and connecting models across disciplines.
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2025
A completed research career
Boden died on 18 July 2025. Her career included research, teaching, books and institution building.
Sources and credits
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