Research by TomMitchell, chair of the Machine Learning Department, and Marcel Just, professorof psychology, on the use of brain scans to identify thoughts was featured on theJan. 4 episode of CBS News' "60 Minutes." The computer algorithms developed byMitchell and Just have provided new insight into how the brain encodes meaning.See correspondent Lesley Stahl's report.

The work also wasthe subject of a front-page story in the Jan. 4 issue of the PittsburghPost-Gazette.The Post-Gazette posted a video of reporter Mark Roth undergoing a functionalmagnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan and having his thoughts identified bythe computer algorithm.