Noam Chomsky has recently written:
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal last summer, you may
have seen, about MIT, my place. What had happened was that a student in
a computer science class had refused to answer a question on an exam.
When he was asked why by the professor, he said that he knew the answer
but he was under a secrecy condition from a different professor not to
answer it, and the reason was that, in the research he was doing for
this other professor, they had sort of worked out the answer to this;
but they wanted to keep it secret, because they wanted to make money, or
something. Well, you know, this is so scandalous that even the Wall
Street Journal was scandalized.
Unfortunately, he cannot recall the source. Do any of you? I tried
searching with MIT, student, .... but with no success.
Any help would be appreciated. I am trying to finish my intellectual
property book in the next few weeks and this would be a real gem to put
in the ms.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
