"We must try and attract more foreign technologists, expertise, producers, investors, distributors, directors, actors and artists, to come and collaborate with us on high-quality co-productions," Mr. Han said.
Foreign-born technologists have long helped to power Silicon Valley, while many of the "quants" on Wall Street are immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Silicon Valley exemplifies an American success story threatened by a shift in how we treat the type of bright foreign-born technologists and entrepreneurs who help make us great.
Skolkovo is supposed to act as a factory for indigenous technologists and entrepreneurs, a magnet for foreign multinationals, an inspiration for young people, an insurance policy against over-reliance on energy and a bridge between the scientific and the business worlds.
A study of some 2,000 engineering and technology companies created between 1995 and 2005 found that in 25% of these companies, either the chief executive or lead technologist was foreign-born.
But with the new administration reportedly considering further restrictions on H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers, and possibly other programs, I worry that promising technologists who might start the next Google or Netflix may have trouble getting into, or staying in, the U.S. in the future.
Ensuring that patients remain free of unintended retained foreign bodies is a primary responsibility of perioperative nurses and surgical technologists.
"Even as the NSA demands more powers to invade our privacy in the name of cybersecurity, it is making the internet less secure and exposing us to criminal hacking, foreign espionage, and unlawful surveillance," said the ACLU's principal technologist Christopher Soghoian.
In a two-year study of engineering and technology firms started between 1995 and 2005, Harvard professor Vivek Wadhwa and his team found the chief executives or lead technologists in one-fourth of these companies were foreign-born.
And that, according to a new report being released Friday by a group of technologists, could pose "serious security risks" to ordinary Internet users, giving thieves and even foreign agents a way to listen in on Americans' conversations, undetected.
Technologists agree with her.
