Dr. Makin and his former colleagues at UCSF demonstrated for the first time a speech neuroprosthesis in a paralyzed patient.  Intended words were detected and classified (from a set of 50) one at a time, and then assembled into sentences with a language model.  The results are part of a clinical trial based on using electrocorticography (ECoG) to read out neural activity and decode speech.  Especial credit goes to the three first authors, Moses, Metzger, and Liu; and senior author Eddie Chang.  The article got lots of press, including a nice write up in the New York Times.