Friday, December 4, 2015

The software reads in thought, about a student of Malpighi – Il Resto del Carlino (Blog)

Bologna, December 4, 2015 – The aunt psychologist tells of a patient who can not talk because of a stroke, and he creates a program to compose the words on the computer using a headset that reads your brain waves.

The inventor is a high school student before the “Malpighi” of Bologna, and now offered at a conference Press, a demonstration of the potential of his program. He has composed the word “ Lab “, in less than a minute. Of course, explains the headmaster Elena Ugolini , although the idea was hers alone, James Micheli (the name of the young inventor, ed ) “has needed the support of someone more experienced.”

So, to implement the program, the boy “has worked with Carmel Preston , a collaborator 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. ” The software works like this: the computer scroll through the letters, which are selected by “almost the whole time, just by using the headset that reads brain waves”.

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