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5 Dissemination and Availability
To date, the BCI2000 project has organized a number of workshops on the theory
and application of the system: Albany, New York, June 2005; Beijing, China, July
2007; Rome, Italy, December 2007; Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2008; Bolton
Landing, New York, October 2009; Asilomar, California, June 2010. During those
workshops, talks provide introductions to practical aspects of BCI experiments, use
and modification of BCI2000; and participants also gain BCI experience in hands-on
tutorials.
The main web site for the BCI2000 project is http://www.bci2000.org. All source
code is available on http://source.bci2000.org; and full documentation is available
on http://doc.bci2000.org. Access to BCI2000 source code and executables is free
of charge for research and educational purposes.
Since version 3.0, BCI2000 may be compiled using either the Visual C++ compiler,
or gcc/MinGW. Compilation of source, signal processing, and application
modules is also possible with a recent Borland/CodeGear compiler.
Acknowledgments BCI2000 has been in development since 2000. Since the project’s inception,
Gerwin Schalk has been responsible for the direction and implementation of the project. Dennis
McFarland and Thilo Hinterberger contributed greatly to the initial system design and its implementation,
and Drs. Wolpaw and Birbaumer provided support and useful advice in earlier stages of
this project. Since 2002, Jürgen Mellinger has been responsible for software design and architecture.
Since 2004, Adam Wilson and Peter Brunner have contributed system components and much
needed testing. The following individuals or parties have also contributed to the development of
BCI2000 (in alphabetical order):
Erik Aarnoutse, Brendan Allison, Maria Laura Blefari, Simona Bufalari, Bob Cardillo,
Febo Cincotti, Joshua Fialkoff, Emanuele Fiorilla, Dario Gaetano, g.tec TM , Sebastian Halder,
Jeremy Hill, Jenny Hizver, Sam Inverso, Vaishali Kamat, Dean Krusienski, Marco Mattiocco,
Griffin “The Geek” Milsap, Melody M. Moore-Jackson, Yvan Pearson-Lecours, Christian
Puzicha, Thomas Schreiner, Chintan Shah, Mark Span, Chris Veigl, Janki Vora, Shi Dong
Zheng.
Initial development of BCI2000 has been sponsored by an NIH Bioengineering Research
Partnership grant (EB00856) to Jonathan Wolpaw. Current development is sponsored by a NIH
R01 grant (EB006356) to Gerwin Schalk.
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