There was an article in the International Herald Tribune some time in the May-June timeframe, where the President or one of the Deans at Harvard pointed out exactly this problem. I can't find the article in the NYT/IHT/etc archives -- did anyone else see it?
/ji On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:50:18AM -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 10:03:57AM -0400, John Kelsey wrote: > > | >Academics locked out by tight visa controls > | >U.S. SECURITY BLOCKS FREE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS > | >By Bruce Schneier > | > | I guess I've been surprised this issue hasn't seen a lot more > | discussion. It takes nothing more than to look at the names of the > | people doing PhDs and postdocs in any technical field to figure out > | that a lot of them are at least of Chinese, Indian, Arab, Iranian, > | Russian, etc., ancestry. And only a little more time to find out that > | a lot of them are not citizens, and have a lot of hassles with respect > | to living and working here. What do you suppose happens to the US > | lead in high-tech, when we *stop* drawing in some large fraction of > | the smartest, hardest-working thousandth of a percent of mankind? > > Those people don't get a vote. The politicians in question will be > dead and gone before the slope of the curve changes anything. Why > *would* we discuss it? > > Adam the cynic. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Cryptography Mailing List > Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
