INTERESTING PEOPLE

Portable Brain-Computer Interface for mental driving a car.





Alexander Kaplan and Emanuel Donchin (Professor, University of South Florida)





David Shapiro (Professor Emeritus, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences) and Alexander Kaplan





Richard Bandler and Alexander Kaplan (Orlando, 2008)





Vladimir Kovalzon (Professor, Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, RAS), Alexander Kaplan and Ivan Pigarev (Professor, Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems, RAS)





Boris Velichkovsky (Director, Institute for Cognitive Studies, Moscow; Professor, Dresden University of Technology) and Alexander Kaplan (in Kaplan's lab).





K.K.Deepak (Professor, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences) and Alexander Kaplan





Christoph Guger and Alexander Kaplan at the International Conference "Science beyond Fiction: The European Future Technologies Conference" (FET09), 2009, Prague.
C.Guger studied biomedical engineering at the University of Technology Graz, Austria. He made his PhD about the real-time analysis of EEG data for the realization of a brain-computer interface. Currently, he is the owner of g.tec Medical Engineering GmbH.





Alexander Kaplan and David Dubrovsky giving lectures at The 1st All-Russia Scientific School "To the Future of Brain and Intelligence Science".
Professor D.I.Dubrovsky (RAS Institute of Philosophy) is famous in Russia for his studies of consciousness.





Alexander Kaplan and David Dubrovsky in Kaplan's lab.






The rector of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University Academician V.A.Sadovnichiy (right) discuss the perspectives of BCI R&D with the BCI project leader Prof. A.Ya.Kaplan (Dept. of Human & Animal Physiology, MSU Faculty of Biology). A BCI working prototype is demonstrated by Ivan Basyul, a student of the university who participates in the project. (1)





The rector of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University Academician V.A.Sadovnichiy (right) discuss the perspectives of BCI R&D with the BCI project leader Prof. A.Ya.Kaplan (Dept. of Human & Animal Physiology, MSU Faculty of Biology). A BCI working prototype is demonstrated by Ivan Basyul, a student of the university who participates in the project. (2)





The rector of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University Academician V.A.Sadovnichiy (right) discuss the perspectives of BCI R&D with the BCI project leader Prof. A.Ya.Kaplan (Dept. of Human & Animal Physiology, MSU Faculty of Biology). A BCI working prototype is demonstrated by Ivan Basyul, a student of the university who participates in the project. (3)





Alexander Kaplan, Christof Guger (the owner and the head of g.Tec) and Arina Kochetova at the 5th International BCI Conference 2011 (Graz).





Christof Guger, his colleagues from g.Tec and Arina Kochetova at the 5th International BCI Conference 2011 (Graz).





Ilya Ganin, Sergei Shishkin, Arina Kochetova and Alexander Kaplan at the 5th International BCI Conference 2011 (Graz).





Jonathan R. Wolpaw (Professor, Wadsworth Center), one of the world's leaders in BCI research and development, and members of the Lab. for Neurophysiology and Neuro-Computer Interfaces: Alexander Kaplan, Arina Kochetova and Ilya Ganin, at the 5th International BCI Conference 2011 (Graz).





Jacques J. Vidal (Professor, UCLA), the author of the first BCI paper (J.J.Vidal. Toward direct brain-computer communication. Annu Rev Biophys Bioeng. 1973. 2:157-180), his wife and the members of the Lab. for Neurophysiology and Neuro-Computer Interfaces: Alexander Kaplan, Ilya Ganin and Arina Kochetova, at the 5th International BCI Conference 2011 (Graz).





Participants of the 5th International BCI Conference 2011 (Graz), including the members of the Lab. for Neurophysiology and Neuro-Computer Interfaces (in the left bottom corner): Alexander Kaplan, Arina Kochetova, Ilya Ganin and Sergei Shishkin.
(This is a fragment from a much larger image taken with a remote controlled helicopter. The full collection of pictures taken from the helicopter during the conference can be found at the conference site bci.tugraz.at/BCI2011.)