by Jean Starobinski
translated by Barbara Bray
Univ. Press of Va., 1982
294 pp. $24.95
by Marshall Berman Simon & Schuster, 1982 383 pp. $17.50
by Curtis M. Hinsley
Smithsonian, 1981
319 pp. $19.95
edited by David McFarland Oxford, 1982 657 pp. $29.95
by Francois Delaporte translated by Arthur Goldhammer MIT, 1982 266 pp. $20
by Michael Walzer. Harvard, 1982. 344 pp. $6.95
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.c.) -sits high above the juncture of two rivers, an ideal site for a military outpost. It is surrounded a mud-brick wall 33 feet high and 20 to 27 feet thick. The city's grand palace, a complex of monumental adminis- trative and residential buildings, covers more than 20 acres. There is nothing like it in Greece; the model for the plan was probably Persian, and the flat roofs are "characteristically Eastern." But columns in the classical styles-Doric, Ionic,...
contrast, parallel processing starts with a network or grid containing a processor at each node. Writes Hiatt: "Elements in a grid trade off information, then pass a processed array of new information through further grids or layers of parallel processors . . . until a suitable level of representation or deci- sion making is reached." Human vision probably works this way, but at speeds no machine can match. A rudimentary parallel processor is due to be completed at the University of Maryland...