The vision of lots of information being acted on across the network was akin to one described last week by Cisco Systems.
They must pull off an acting trick, akin to one required of contestants on the old find-the-liar game show "To Tell the Truth".
BRIDGET SMITH San Francisco A person who withholds his transgender identity on a date is not akin to one who withholds his S.T.D. status.
These critics advocate discounting pension liabilities based on a low-risk rate of return, akin to one for a very safe bond.
The effect was akin to one of those strings of small explosives that, when your correspondent was a child, friends would occasionally smuggle into the country from France.
At its peak, it can perform at a speed of nearly 55 petaflops – with a petaflop akin to one thousand trillion instructions per second.
His project is akin to two other projects, "Noah K. Everyday," daily self-portraits by Noah Kalina, and "My daughter Kanna," portraits by Toyokazu Nagano.
Akin to mobile-phone towers but communicating using pulses of sound rather than radio waves, the nodes are placed a kilometre or so apart.
Set among tall palms and frangipani in the grounds of a 100-year-old aristocratic house on the Chao Phraya river, these four apartments feel more akin to one of Thailand's tropical islands.
The two meet a final time, and share a muted exchange, akin to one of the clipped, inarticulate breakup scenes from Hemingway, in which, bruised by heartache, no one can quite think of the right thing to say.
Dr Newman's analysis of the animals' interactions suggested that what looked, superficially, like a single group was actually more akin to two groups held together by two "mutual friends".
