Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to Pilbeam and Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, the current disparity in grades between science and non-science courses appeared about 10 years ago, but since then, grades have "inflated more or less in parallel...
...deepening of class divisions. Three information-castes will form: those who know, those who don't know but know how to find out over the net, and those who don't even know the information they are missing, let alone how to access it. Not surprisingly, these castes will parallel the existing tripartite class structure on which our economy is based...
Pern, an acronym for Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible, is a planet whose residents arrived from Earth many generations before and have reverted to a medieval lifestyle, losing their knowledge and understanding of advances such as computers. Fire-breathing dragons flourish on the planet, genetically engineered by the first settlers of Pern to combat the dreaded Thread--a corrosive substance that threatens Pernese existence every 200 years...
...technique behind Deep Blue is "parallel computing." To solve a hard problem fast, use lots of computers simultaneously. Deep Blue is a computer ensemble: 32 general-purpose computers, each one attached to eight special-purpose processors. Parallel computing used to be (believe it or not) controversial. Some computer scientists were worried that programmers wouldn't be able to manage lots of computers simultaneously. In retrospect, it was a piece of cake...
...body's inner clock -- at least in mice. Resarchers, according to the journal Cell, believe that the discovery of the so-called "clock gene" in laboratory mice, with its 100,000 bits of information on sleep patterns, mood swings and hormone levels, is an important step towards isolating a parallel gene in humans. This could allow scientists to zero in on the causes of diseases such as insomnia and depression that are related to disturbances in circadian rhythms. It may also help explain why medical conditions such as asthma and heart disease worsen at certain hours. To do so, scientists...