Internet-Scale Pattern Recognition

Preface

We would argue that the thinking behind pattern re cognition has been inordi-

nately constrained by the characteristics of prevailing computing machinery.

Otherwise, given the volume of literature on pattern r ecognition that has been

generated over the past 50 years, it would be fair to expect that some elemen-

tary forms of human vision or hearing would be demonstrable by now. It is

not feas ible to model processes that take pla ce in the human brain as s tored

programs on seq ue ntial processors. The technology in this regard tethers on

edges. Reading text reliably only works in tightly controlled environments.

Similarly, re cognizing the ...