Twenty-four winners of the Turing Award are endorsing former Vice President Joe ***** in the upcoming presidential election, The New York Times reported, explaining they’re concerned the ***** 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 elsewhere,” David Patterson, a Google distinguished engineer and former professor at the University of California, Berkeley told the Times.
Among the names on the endorsement are Vint Cerf, who co-designed TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the internet; Martin…