Books - By, About, Or of Interest to Caltech People

Books - by, about, or of interest to Caltech people

MACROECONOMICS AND MICROPOLITICS: symposium was held during the day, SALT delegation - as well as being The Electoral Effects of Economic followed by a banquet in the evening. president of Caltech from 1969 to 1977. Issues This book contains the 12 talks given on that occasion. by D. Roderick Kiewiet Each of the speakers whose remarks THE ROMANTIC IDEOLOGY The University of Chicago Press $15.00 are reproduced in this book had had A CRITICAL INVESTIGATION some relation to GALCIT and/or to by Jerome J. McGann Focusing primarily on the issues of aeronautics more broadly, and the arti­ The University of Chicago Press ... $15.00 inflation and unemployment, Rod cles are full of affection for those two Kiewiet, associate professor of political institutions. They are also full of infor­ Claiming that the scholarship and criticism science at Caltech, investigates in this mation about the history of flight - of Romanticism and its works have for book whether voters are influenced from the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk too long been dominated by a Romantic more by direct personal experience with through early rocketry and supersonics ideology, Jerome McGann presents a new economic problems or by economic to the Gossamer Condor. The book is view of the subject in this book. He ana­ problems they perceive to be trouble­ illustrated with a series of historical lyzes both the predominant theories of some to the nation as a whole. He tests photographs. The editor, Fred Culick, is Romanticism (those of Coleridge, Hegel, four hypotheses designed to answer this professor of applied physics and jet and Heine) and the products of its major question and establishes that national propulsion at Caltech. problems, rather than those personally English practitioners - Wordsworth, experienced, are the predominant influ­ Coleridge, Shelley, and Byron. He argues ence on voters' decisions. Personal eco­ that poetry is produced and reproduced nomic hardships affect voting only THINKING ABOUT NATIONAL SECURITY within concrete historical contexts and that criticism must take these contexts into among a small minority (the very re­ Defense and Foreign Policy in a account, and he shows how the ideologies cently unemployed). Objective economic Dangerous World circumstances, he concludes, combine in embodied in Romantic poetry have shaped complex but regular ways with percep­ by Harold Brown and distorted contemporary critical activi­ tions of government responsibility and Westview Press ...... $17.95 ties. party competence and differences to McGann is the Doris and Henry Drey­ determine who will win or lose at the Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense fuss Professor of Humanities at Caltech. polls. during the Carter administration, out­ lines here the agenda of national security issues from the vantage point of one A CRITIQUE OF MODERN TEXTUAL who has had firsthand experience with CRITICISM these complex problems. Now distin­ GUGGENHEIM AERONAUTICAL by Jerome J. McGann LABORATORY AT THE CALIFORNIA guished visiting professor at the Johns INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY - THE FIRST Hopkins University School of Advanced The University of Chicago Press ... $12.50 FIFTY YEARS International Studies, Brown discusses his views more broadly and candidly In this volume, McGann undertakes a edited by F. E. C. Culick than he could while in office. As a critical examination of the central ques­ San Francisco Press, Inc., Box 6800, framework for thinking about defense in tions of modern editorial theory and San Francisco, California 94101-6800 the 1980s, he places the issues in histori­ textual criticism. He first traces how at­ Cloth ...... $12.50 cal perspective, ties together the politi­ tempts to reconstruct lost texts evolved Paper ...... $ 7.50 cal, economic, and military aspects of into a search for "most authoritative" national security, and suggests some editions and finally into a theory of the On December 15, 1978, more than 400 rational and practical approaches to author's "final" intentions. He then argues alumni and friends of GALCIT (now forming U.S. policies. He discusses that current methods of studying and called the Graduate Aeronautical Labor­ specifically U.S. interests and alliances interpreting texts are inappropriate to what atories at the California Institute of in various regions of the world and he calls "modern national scriptures" and Technology) gathered at Caltech to confronts "the stark facts of the nuclear pleads for a more flexible theory that will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the age." accommodate the realities of the writing, Wright brothers' first powered flights Brown has also served as Secretary of editing, and publishing of modern and the 50th anniversary of GALCIT. A the Air Force and member of the U.S. literature.

28 ENGINEERING & SCIENCE I NOVEMBER 1983 THE SCIENCE OF MUSICAL SOUND by which computers generate the musical the resulting bottleneck in actual fabrica­ by John Pierce sounds now so familiar from the sound tion of the chips. Conventional chip tracks of Star Wars and other movies. design can, for example, take a year and Scientific American Library ...... Pierce looks on electronically produced cost several million dollars. The fabrica­ sounds not as a part of electronics but tion of the then somewhat out-of-date The Science of Musical Sound is a "as a part of the evolution of musical result can take less than a month and guided tour of scientific research into sound, from drum, lyre, and Stradivar­ cost well under $10,000. This book by music, from the classic investigations of ius to some of today's entirely new Ronald Ayres, lecturer in computer Pythagoras to the current fieldwork and sounds." science, discusses Caltech's pioneering experiments by acousticians, psycholo­ The book is profusely illustrated and research in silicon compilation as a gists, and composers. But, says John also has two 33-rpm records that demon­ technique for automatic microchip de­ Pierce, professor of engineering emeritus strate something of what the psychology sign for VLSI (very large scale integra­ at Caltech, "in the field of sound and of acoustics has learned about the per­ tion) and suggests that its time- and music, complicated equipment and ception, the illusion, and the effect of money-saving possibilities may offer a ingenious experiments are not ends in sound. Currently, the book is available substantial solution to the hardware themselves. They are the means by only to members of the Scientific Ameri­ crisis. which we can evaluate the acuity, the can Library. Those who wish to enroll There are two focal points of concern discrimination, the powers and limita­ should wrIte to Scientific American in a silicon compiler, says Ayres - the tions of hearing, a sense that we use Library, P.O. Box 646, Holmes, PA target language (the capabilities of sili­ continually, a sense through which the 19043. con) and the source language (the lan­ whole of music came into being." He is guage in which the user specifies the confident that rational enquiry into this VLSI: SILICON COMPILATION AND THE function to be performed by the new intensely subjective aesthetic experience ART OF AUTOMATIC MICROCHIP DESIGN chip). The first part of this three-part will open up new realms for enjoyment book deals with the target language - of that experience. by Ronald R Ayres the integrated circuits themselves; the Pierce is particularly well qualified to Prentice-Hall, Inc ...... $39.95 second, with the source language - the discuss contemporary electronic and integrated circuit behavior. The final computer-generated music, because he One of the most serious problems of the part of the book - silicon compilation was a principal member of the team at ongoing microelectronic revolution is - presents a variety of translations Bell Laboratories that, more than 20 that of the increasing complexity of the from the source behavior to the target years ago, invented the basic techniques design process for integrated circuits and layout.

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