Desney Tan - Teaching computers to read minds
From:  Technology Review - Young Innovators Under 35
By: Kate Greene

It's not unusual to walk into Desney Tan's Microsoft Research office and find
him wearing a red and blue electroencephalography (EEG) cap, white wires
cascading past his shoulders. Tan spends his days looking at a monitor,
inspecting and modifying the mess of squiggles that approximate his brain's
electrical activity. He is using algorithms to sort through and make sense of
EEG data in hopes of turning electrodes into meaningful input devices for
computers, as common as the mouse and keyboard. 

The payoff, he says, will be technology that improves productivity in the
workplace, enhances video-game play, and simplifies interactions with
computers. Ultimately, Tan hopes to develop a mass-market EEG system
consisting of a small number of electrodes that, affixed to a person's head,
communicate wirelessly with software on a PC. The software could keep e-mail
at bay if the user is concentrating, or select background music to suit
different moods. 

Read the entire article at:
http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&TRID=629

Links:
Images of Desney Tan’s EEG equipment and lab setup
http://www.technologyreview.com/player/07/09/TR35Tan/1.aspx

Desney S. Tan
http://research.microsoft.com/%7Edesney/
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~desney/
http://www.cortechsolutions.com/Snapshot_Tan.htm

Physiological Sensing and Inference
http://research.microsoft.com/vibe/projects/bci.aspx