1. An apparatus to facilitate gesture recognition, comprising: a sensor array to acquire sensory data; pattern matching integrated circuit having a multitude of associative memory neurons to store reference vector data corresponding to user gestures; and gesture recognition logic to receive real time signals from the sensor array and to perform gesture recognition using the pattern matching integrated circuit to compare incoming vector data corresponding to the real time signals with the reference vector data, wherein each neuron autonomously compares the incoming vector data with stored reference vector data.