Merge pull request #191 from yidiq7/master

Fix typos

README.md

@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ parallel graph management and execution in heterogeneous computing
 
 About the Pathos Framework
 --------------------------
-``pathos`` is a framework for heterogenous computing. It provides a consistent
+``pathos`` is a framework for heterogeneous computing. It provides a consistent
 high-level interface for configuring and launching parallel computations
-across heterogenous resources. ``pathos`` provides configurable launchers for
+across heterogeneous resources. ``pathos`` provides configurable launchers for
 parallel and distributed computing, where each launcher contains the
 syntactic logic to configure and launch jobs in an execution environment.
 Examples of launchers that plug into ``pathos`` are: a queue-less MPI-based
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ code to leverage the selected parallel or distributed computing resource.
 This not only greatly reduces the time to convert a code to parallel, but it
 also enables a single code-base to be maintained instead of requiring
 parallel, serial, and distributed versions of a code. ``pathos`` maps can be
-nested, thus hierarchical heterogenous computing is possible by merely
+nested, thus hierarchical heterogeneous computing is possible by merely
 selecting the desired hierarchy of ``map`` and ``pipe`` (``apply``) objects.
 
 The ``pathos`` framework is composed of several interoperating packages:
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ The ``pathos`` framework is composed of several interoperating packages:
 * ``multiprocess``: better multiprocessing and multithreading in python
 * ``ppft``: distributed and parallel python
 * ``pyina``: MPI parallel ``map`` and cluster scheduling
-* ``pathos``: graph management and execution in heterogenous computing
+* ``pathos``: graph management and execution in heterogeneous computing
 
 
 About Pathos