19-09-2020 22:50 via theverge.com

Turing Award winners endorse Biden, say Trump immigration policy will stifle tech research

Twenty-four winners of the Turing Award are endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential election, The New York Times reported, explaining they’re concerned the Trump administration’s immigration policies could be detrimental to both computer research and the technology industry over the long term.“The most brilliant people in the world want to come here and be grad students, but now they are being discouraged from coming here, and many are going elsew
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