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Concurrent, Parallel, Distributed

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Concurrent programming is the broadest term — tasks overlapping on one processor or many; parallel means genuinely simultaneous processors; distributed computing spreads parallelism across connected computers.

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A class project overlaps tasks, splits some among members present, and sends the rest home with others.

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Video 0053 already drew the first boundary; the third term is new.