Here is the software that reads in thought, designed by a student of … – BolognaToday

          
              
               

             
          

       
            
      
             
          

       
       
       

Hearing the story of an aunt, psychologist, on a patient who can not talk because of a stroke, the idea of ​​creating a program to compose the words on the computer using a headset that reads your brainwaves. The inventor is a student of high school before the “Malpighi”, James Micheli.

 

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The brilliant young man, in the presence of the press, gave a practical demonstration of the potential of his ‘creature’. The software works like this: the computer scroll through the letters, which are selected by “almost the whole time, just using the headset that reads your brain waves.”

 
 

Even though the idea was hers alone , James “has needed the support of someone more experienced” says the dean Elena Ugolini. To implement the program, the boy “has worked with Carmelo Preston, one of our staff who is now at MIT in Boston with a scholarship to do two years of research”, and together the two “have developed an algorithm with ” Scratch ”, the program that is used to teach children how to program. “