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	Cyberculture and the "Crisis" of the Middle-Class: A Critique of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition
		That is to say, her job in reading and interpreting the quickly changing cultural landscape of globalization—part of the "pattern recognition" of the title—means that she not only works within the up-to-the-minute reality of iPod capitalism, but serves as one of the primary cultural architects who enable corporations to "pivot into the new century" (10).
		Pattern Recognition has become so popular among "middle-class" readers because it makes the world appear strange, but never different, and thus maintains the illusion that reading, like consumption, is a personal act of meaning-making without any reliable connection to reality.
		Pattern Recognition turns consumption into an act of resistance and makes anyone who thinks that a more fundamental social change than changing one's shopping habits is necessary to transform an unequal and unjust economic system appear to be too out of touch with the new reality.
	www.redcritique.org /WinterSpring2007/cybercultureandthecrisisofthemiddleclass.htm (3139 words)

	Excessive Candour
		Pattern Recognition begins in Camden Town, a district of London dominated by markets and venues, a place where the world seems isomorphic with the words that spin it.
		That the pattern is in fact not a city map, that it is in fact something whose implications wrench the heart, the reader will discover.
		For the pattern, and the story embedded in the pattern, and the maker of the pattern, are one.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue305/excess.html (1360 words)

	Nodal point - Salon
		As defined by Gibson in "Pattern Recognition," apophenia is "the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things." In other words: Recognizing patterns that aren't actually there.
		Welcome to the world of "Pattern Recognition," where a whole mess of people are suffering from greater or lesser degrees of what might be apophenia, except when it isn't.
		"Pattern Recognition" is a novel in which people live and die by their e-mail, flame each other endlessly in online discussion forums and fight for control of information.
	dir.salon.com /story/tech/books/2003/02/13/gibson/index.html (975 words)

	Pattern Recognition (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pattern Recognition is William Gibson's eighth novel, the first to be set in the contemporary world.
		As is characteristic with Gibson novels, Pattern Recognition is replete with neologisms.
		The novel ends with a series of e-mails – a motif used often throughout the novel by Gibson – closing all remaining plot lines except one, which is in bed with her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pattern_Recognition_(novel) (1113 words)

	Pattern Recognition for Computer Network Security
		The pattern recognition approach is expected to help in extracting complex decision rules, that can hardly be implemented by human experts through rule-based systems.
		In fact, while pattern recognition approaches can detect intrusions for which no specific training data were available, they often produce a large number of false alarms, as legitimate traffic can be classified as being intrusive.
		His main area of expertise is the development of pattern recognition algorithms for applications like remote sensing, video surveillance, content-based retrieval from image databases, and intrusion detection in computer networks.
	www.ee.surrey.ac.uk /icpr2004/tutorials/PatternRecognition_000.htm (699 words)

	Bookreporter.com - PATTERN RECOGNITION by William Gibson
		Pattern recognition is one thing, but seeing patterns everywhere, whether they exist or not, is another (it's called "apophenia," apparently --- "the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things").
		Though PATTERN RECOGNITION is structured as an adventure or mystery story, Gibson's novel is also an impressive study of the ways technology impacts the lives of individuals and communities (or creates those communities).
		PATTERN RECOGNITION is fraught with symbols and images of the world's unerring cultural, technological and economic evolution, symbols both comical and profound that mark the passage from one century to the next.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0425192938.asp (2799 words)

	Review \| Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson
		Recently, Neal Stephenson's Cryptomonicon, as fat as Pattern Recognition is lean, was largely treated as a science fiction novel by reviewers, bookdealers, and readers, even nominated for sf awards, though the main action involves the breaking of the Enigma code of World War II and isn't science fiction in the usual sense.
		Over halfway through the novel, Cayce tells Bigend to "Shut up," something we've been dying to do for some pages, and then observes this: "It isn't a voice Cayce has often heard, but she knows when she hears it that it's her voice." Unfortunately, a page later, this strong voice is gone.
		The novel wraps up as neatly and efficiently as a Shakespearean comedy, rushing right past the startling revelation of the maker's identity and her extraordinary story with less attention than they seem to deserve.
	www.blackbird.vcu.edu /v2n1/nonfiction/danvers_d/gibson.htm (1689 words)

	Amazon.com: Pattern Recognition: Books: William Gibson
		Pattern Recognition (Gibson, William) and over 80,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle — Amazon’s new wireless reading device.
		The first of William Gibson's usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, Pattern Recognition is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica.
		The novel is filled with Gibson's lyric descriptions and astute observations of modern life, making it worth the read for both cool hunters and their prey.
	www.amazon.com /Pattern-Recognition-William-Gibson/dp/0399149864 (667 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: Pattern Recognition
		In Gibson's eagerly awaited new novel, Pattern Recognition, the present collides with the future in a world where corporations are pushing their brand messages ever-deeper into everyday life.
		Pattern Recognition takes place one year after the events of September 11, 2001, and the terrorist attacks are part of the context of Pollard's life.
		In Pattern Recognition, Gibson puts his visionary focus on the impact of the interconnected global economy and reveals how the constant pressure to consume chips away at our sense of self.
	www.bookpage.com /0301bp/fiction/pattern_recognition.html (360 words)

	Pattern Recognition by William S. Gibson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pattern Recognition is the latest novel by cyberpunk legend William Gibson (published in 2003; available in unabridged audio in 2004, read by Shelly Frasier).
		Indeed, a subplot of the novel involves the disappearance of Cayce's father, a former government spy last seen in downtown Manhattan on the morning of the terrorist attacks.
		By comparison, Pattern Recognition is a comfy fireside read, an intriguing, artful mystery with about as much at stake as being the first to see the sneak preview of some upcoming blockbuster film.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Jan06/patternrecognition.htm (618 words)

	Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
		Pattern Recognition is set in the present, or perhaps more exactly, the very recent past (relative to January 2003).
		Pattern Recognition is set firmly in the modern world and is full of references that are current in the early part of the twenty-first century.
		The central obcession in Pattern Recognition is with "the footage".
	www.bearcave.com /bookrev/pattern_recognition.html (1695 words)

	Review: William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, reviewed by Genevieve Williams
		It's even true for Pattern Recognition, set as it is in the very recent past, yet retaining some futuristic quality.
		This elegant, elegiac tone infuses Pattern Recognition so that when the plot engages and Cayce is sent on her quest, the vocabulary supports it.
		Cayce is still reeling from the event, which she did not actually witness; at the time of the first plane's impact, she is absorbed by something she sees in a shop window, and she sees the second on television even though she is in New York at the time.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2003/20030421/pattern_recognition.shtml (1567 words)

	The Pinocchio Theory » Blog Archive » Pattern Recognition
		William Gibson’s new novel Pattern Recognition (which I have finally finished reading) is very likely the first work of literature to use “Google” as a verb (as in: “If you Google him, you’ll find…).
		Pattern Recognition is Gibson’s first book to be set in the present, rather than in a science-fictional imagined future or alternative past.
		Pattern Recognition is not as formally adventurous as the film footage it is about.
	www.shaviro.com /Blog/?p=40 (788 words)

	William Gibson aleph - Pattern Recognition (2002)
		'Pattern Recognition' is William Gibson's first story set in the present day.
		The plot is far more straightforward than his previous novel and told solely from the protagonists view.
		The novel will be released by Putnam on February 3rd, 2003, as confirmed by Gibson's editor.
	www.antonraubenweiss.com /gibson/09pattern.html (188 words)

	Mobileye - General (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pattern recognition is one of the core technologies developed by Mobileye.
		The classification is based on a novel learning approach that combines static and dynamic visual information for a discriminate function.
		The discriminate function is "trained" from a wide variety of pictures of the class of objects of interest (cars, trucks, buses, motorcycles, pedestrians, faces).
	www.mobileye.com /pattern.shtml (208 words)

	Pynchon: Review of Gibson's "Pattern Recognition"
		If his elegant, entrancing seventh novel offers an answer to his detractors, it could be roughly translated as: so sue me. ''Pattern Recognition'' is almost nose-thumbingly conventional in design.
		''Pattern Recognition'' considers these issues with appealing care and, given that this best-selling author is his own kind of franchise, surprising modesty.
		Lisa Zeidner's most recent novel is ''Layover.'' She is a professor of English at Rutgers University, Camden.
	www.themodernword.com /pynchon/gibson_review.html (1221 words)

	Printculture : Pattern Recognition
		The coincidence prompted some pattern recognition of my own, a series of readings and thoughts produced by the kind of startling conjunction one makes for oneself as often as possible.
		Junger is a different case--the novel's pace is slow, and the meditation on technology and culture that it offers occurs largely at the level of internal monologue.
		Instead the whole novel is saturated with violence and potential violence that emerges not from its events (with one exception) but rather from the suppurated residue of the surface of the history necessary to produce its real.
	www.printculture.com /item-176.html (713 words)

	Pattern Recognition: Marketing's Mirror World
		Cayce Pollard, protagonist of his hotly awaited new novel, "Pattern Recognition," is cool.
		"Pattern Recognition" is widely hailed as his most mainstream and accessible novel.
		The epitome of patternhead cool is to have read "Pattern Recognition" prior to the February 3 release.
	www.clickz.com /showPage.html?page=1580881 (1156 words)

	Wired 11.02: PLAY
		In Pattern Recognition (Putnam, $26), he goes acoustic, unplugging the overt sci-fi tropes that have marked his work and producing a mainstream product.
		But Pattern Recognition's essential quality is the sensual pleasure of its language.
		Pattern recognition itself can morph into the disorder apophenia, "the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness in unrelated things." Which means that even when Pollard discovers The Footage's maker, it's an ambiguous - and potentially apophenic - resolution.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/11.02/play.html?pg=9 (730 words)

	PATTERN RECOGNITION (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Gibson’s new novel Pattern Recognition is like that, submerging us in a world we instantly recognize and yet cannot quite understand.
		Gibson may be familiar to some as the inventor in a previous novel of the term “cyberspace.” His subject here could not be more current, more “up to the nanosecond”: how aggressive marketing in an ever-more-commercialized globe is destroying individuality, until soon there may be no national identity left.
		Or is it merely “an illusion of meaningfulness, faulty pattern recognition”?
	www.txtwriter.com /Bookshelf/bookreviews/pattern.html (254 words)

	Back to the 80s \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		On the opening page of Pattern Recognition we are introduced to one of its central ideas, a "theory of jet lag".
		Pattern Recognition very much wants to be a novel of ideas.
		In Pattern Recognition, Gibson's resourceful heroine, Cayce Pollard, is given huge resources by an untrustworthy corporate spiv, Hubertus Bigend, to find the maker of mysterious and melancholy footage.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,943419,00.html (1326 words)

	Amazon.ca: Pattern Recognition: Books: William Gibson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In Pattern Recognition William Gibson concerns himself with the patterns of reality that determine the fates of individuals and nations.
		In Pattern Recognition, Gibson's meditations on the shift in global patterns resulting from the collapse of the twin towers logically suppose a new locus of power in Europe, where much of the novel is set.
		A great part of the novel's success stems from the fact that Gibson has become a stylist of language reflecting the cultural and technological changes that are the impetus for his work.
	www.amazon.ca /Pattern-Recognition-William-Gibson/dp/0399149864 (2962 words)

	Pattern Recognition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pattern Recognition has it all--mystery, romance, a heroine with a missing father and a New Age mother whose occupation is trend spotting.
		The novel opens with 32 year-old "coolhunter" Cayce Pollard on assignment in London for the Blue Ant agency to assess a new footwear logo.
		Finally, Pattern Recognition works as both a good read (appropriate for the summer season) and also as insightful social commentary.
	cla.uconn.edu /reviews/PatternRec.html (785 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Books - Pattern Recognition
		But her life, and this novel, centers on the search for a universal constant, a global "stim," which turns out to be bits of eerily beautiful film footage appearing on the web and elsewhere.
		In the process, she learns details about her father's last day --9/11, as it happens, when he had an appointment in Manhattan-- that allow her, finally, to put hopes that he is alive to rest.
		The attack on the World Trade Center occurred when Gibson was well into writing "Pattern Recognition." Faced with the kind of question we all face now (is it weirder to see footage of New York City with the towers standing or with them gone?) he decided to weave 9/11 into the plot.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2003/49777_20030307.asp (1296 words)

	Review of William Gibson's Pattern Recognition (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pattern Recognition, the latest novel in William Gibson’s noted career, is also one of his best.
		Pattern Recognition is the clearest example yet that Gibson was never interested in gadgets, in predicting the future, but rather with sympathies firmly lodged in the tradition of those who write science fiction as a way of examining ourselves.
		Pattern Recognition is an excellent work of fiction; it’s not particularly close to the genre of science fiction, apart from Gibson’s own history.
	www.challengingdestiny.com /reviews/patternrecognition.htm (985 words)

	Forex Trading Articles
		Some of the patterns may be chart patterns; others may be based upon the identification of cycles, configurations of oscillators, etc. Like the doctor, the technical analyst cultivates expertise by seeing many markets and learning to identify the patterns in real time.
		Because pattern recognition entails a healthy measure of judgment, it is very difficult to demonstrate its efficacy outside of the expert’s hands.
		Great traders may be able to identify patterns in their work, but it is not clear that their greatness lies in these patterns.
	www.pfxtrade.com /article2.htm (4632 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Pattern Recognition / William Gibson
		With Pattern Recognition, William Gibson has turned in his first really authentically 21st century novel, and surprise, it isn't about the hyper-technologized futures he speculated upon when he was busy pioneering the cyberpunk thing in the 80's.
		The world of Pattern Recognition is recognizably ours, but feels upgraded at every turn, as if by a mad computer geek who's got to have a new processor and video card every week.
		Gibson's heroine here is no rebel but a paragon of the system; Cayce Pollard is a consultant commissioned by the advertising industry to vet brands and logos for products based upon an acuity she has regarding corporate culture that borders on the metaphysical.
	www.sfreviews.net /patternrec.html (418 words)

	The Case of the World \| Columns \| SCI FI Weekly
		On the front endflap of the dust jacket of Pattern Recognition, a novel set back in the year 2002, readers will find a statement by William Gibson himself.
		The hero of Distraction (1998) by Bruce Sterling, who has collaborated with Gibson, is a spin doctor for whom realities are indeed scenarios to surf.
		The Dryco sequence by Jack Womack, to whom Pattern Recognition is dedicated, started years ago in the middle future and ends now, where world and story wed, eyes wide shut.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/books/column/sfw9468.html (1345 words)

	Procrastination: Pattern Recognition
		Being a DSP nerd, when I first heard of William Gibsonâs science fiction novel Pattern Recognition, I thought of Pattern Classification by Duda, Hart and Stork.
		I liked it a lot in Neuromancer and it made me read Pattern Recognition in a couple of sessions as well.
		What I find amazing is that his novels are such a gripping read despite the fact that most characters are not properly developed at all.
	www.zackvision.com /weblog/2004/07/pattern-recognition.html (396 words)

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