From: utzoo!decvax!cca!JHENDLER@BBNA@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Technology theft
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.1864
Posted: Wed Jun 23 22:23:25 1982
Received: Sun Jun 27 23:26:46 1982

Another example of the high technology smuggling was discovered during
the Yom Kippur war between Egypt and Israel.  The Israelis captured a large
number of soviet made missiles, and discovered that the guidance systems were
made by Texas Instruments.  
  However, things are tighter now than they were then.  The government's
restrictions (Called the "Bucy laws" after TI president J. Fred Bucy)
severely limit what technology is allowed out of the US.  We recently had
a long battle with TI management over whther some of our natural language
group could go to the COLING (Computational Linguistics) conference in Praque.
We were finally allowed to go, once it was determined that the Russians would
have very little use for an English language syntactic parsing scheme, but I
think the unwillingness of US business to send people to Iron Curtain 
countries is becoming manifest.  Their unwillingness to sell chips, etc. 
to the Russians is even starting to overcome their greed for the Russian
marketplace.
  -Jim Hendler
   Texas Instruments, Dallas.
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