The electronic nose is an array of nano-scale gas sensors--the maximized surface area of the nano-particles allows the most gas to pass over them--along with pattern recognition technology that can create a digital fingerprint (or noseprint, as the case may be) of specific smells.

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Right now a teacher must score the map by hand, but Stevens is close to finishing a piece of pattern-recognition software that electronically scores those maps.

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Pattern recognition is the phrase I hear most often among VCs when describing their decision-making process.

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The electronic tongue consists of an array of liquid sensors (electrodes coated with conductive polymers) coupled to pattern-recognition technology that can distinguish particular flavors for taste studies.

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Computers can recognise a well-folded protein when presented with one, but actually finding it calls for the sort of pattern recognition and lateral thinking that they struggle with.

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Looking back on his inventions, a common theme since that first music composer has been pattern recognition which he believes is the essence of human thinking and the essence of the better-than-human artificially-enhanced intelligence that we are evolving toward.

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