To make that equation work, some ideas include increasing the number of engineering students and scholarships for two-year schools. Those are among the proposals made at the Texas Technology Summit 2000 last week in Austin. There's turmoil in the Middle East. The stock market and other indicators are on edge. One industry you may not think of as going high tech is death care.
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But one young Canadian has a vision to change all that. Texas Instruments' Tom Engibous about DSPs - digital signal processors. There's another reminder of our area's role as a leading high-tech center. Chase Global Investor Services, or GIS, has just opened its newest worldwide technology and service hub here. Every industry has tools of the trade.