# Critical path

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**Critical path** may refer to:

- The longest series of sequential operations in a parallel computation; see [analysis of parallel algorithms](/source/Analysis_of_parallel_algorithms)
- [Critical path method](/source/Critical_path_method), an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities
- [*Critical Path* (book)](/source/Critical_Path_(book)), by Buckminster Fuller
- *The Critical Path: An Essay on the Social Context of Literary Criticism*, a 1971 book by [Northrop Frye](/source/Northrop_Frye)
- *The Critical Path*, a podcast by [Horace Dediu](/source/Horace_Dediu)
- [*Critical Path* (video game)](/source/Critical_Path_(video_game)), an interactive movie computer game
- [Critical Path, Inc.](/source/Critical_Path,_Inc.), a provider of messaging services
- [Critical Path Institute](/source/Critical_Path_Institute), an organization for improvement of the drug development process
- [Critical Path Project](/source/Critical_Path_Project), a video archive
- Critical Path Project, early source of HIV/AIDS information founded by [Kiyoshi Kuromiya](/source/Kiyoshi_Kuromiya)
- ["The Critical Path" (*Murder City*)](/source/The_Critical_Path_(Murder_City)), a 2004 television episode

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