Communications of the ACM
Anti-Immigrant Fervor Might Deter Tech's Future Leaders From Coming to America
The dean of Carnegie Mellon University's computer science school is "concerned" that anti-immigrant fervor will deter the next generation of great computer scientists from coming to America, although CMU has not yet seen an impact on its application numbers.
"I think it's short-term, and I haven't seen any craziness, though of course, I'm frightened that it'll happen—on this question of getting really the strongest folks over," says Andrew Moore. "If we appear to have a society which doesn't welcome folks from elsewhere then of course any sane brilliant scientist will end up going to Canada or Singapore or Zurich because they'll be able to get the best of both worlds."
"Once you're living in an academic community or in a software development office for an exciting company, usually in day-to-day interactions this doesn't come up," he says. "You're so focused on some particular mission. But that perception—especially among someone who's maybe 16 or 17 in anywhere from Turkey to China to England—is something I'm concerned about."
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