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. -------