Pattern Recognition Technologies: Getting the Picture -- Recent Key Developments -- Data Net Scan Finds Like-Minded Users -- Software Sorts Tunes -- Word Bursts Reveal Hot Topics -- File Compressor ID's Authors -- Tools Cut Data down to Size -- Software Speeds Gene Comparison -- Software Cross-Sorts Gene Data -- Multimedia Software Sorts Video Soundtracks -- Speech Recognition to Sort Holocaust Tapes -- Image Search Sorts by Content -- Computer vision Vision Chip Shines -- Computer Follows Video Action -- Computers Sort Gender in a Binary World -- Quantum Software Gets the Picture -- Security Text Software Spots Intruders -- Physics Methods May Spot Intruders -- Degree of Difference Sorts Data -- Statistics Sniff out Secrets -- Software Spots Forged Signatures -- Interfaces Interface Gets the Point -- Interface Lets You Point and Speak -- Neural Net Tracks Skin Color -- Language processing Hearing Between the Lines -- PDA Translates Speech -- Software Paraphrases Sentences -- Neural networks Design Enables Large Neural Nets -- Self-Learning Eases Quantum Computing.