XPost: sci.lang, alt.usage.english   
   From: tony_cooper213@earthlink.net   
      
   On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:25:27 -0700, Evan Kirshenbaum   
    wrote:   
      
   >Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
   >writes:   
   >   
   >>> Auto-Tune.  [...] Interestingly, the Wikipedia article says that   
   >>> the underlying technology was develloped at Exxon for use in   
   >>> interpreting seismic data.   
   >>   
   >> That's suspiciously close to a plot element of _The Hunt for Red   
   >> October_.   
   >   
   >_The Hunt for Red October_ was published in 1984.  Andy Hildebrand,   
   >who later developed Auto-Tune, worked at Exxon in the '70s.  I haven't   
   >read the book, but it's quite possible that the plot element was based   
   >on things that were already possible.   
      
   Wasn't there a flap of some sort about Clancy having access to some   
   Top Secret government files and using classified information in his   
   books?   
      
   Not that this involves gummint files, but it brings the thought to   
   mind.   
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