Fifty years later, president-elect Barack Obama opens his victory speech with these words: “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who ...

In English grammar, the concept of parallelism demands that there must be a balance in the structures of the words, phrases or clauses we use in a sentence. Such balance ensures clarity, fluidity in ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The parallel computing concept Microsoft’s Craig Mundie, ...

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Few technologies have a more interesting history than parallel computing, in which multiple processors in a single system combine to tackle a problem. A chronicle of events in parallel computing says ...

The repeated phenotypic patterns that characterize populations undergoing parallel evolution provide support for a deterministic role of adaptation by natural selection. Determining the level of ...

Parallel evolution is the independent evolution of similar traits, starting from a similar ancestral condition. Frequently this is the situation in more closely related lineages, where several species ...