"The thing that limits us is hiring the world's best engineers, " he says, noting that 60 percent of the students at the top U.S. computer-science departments are foreign-born.
In April, Zuckerberg penned an op-ed in the Washington Post calling for revised immigration policies so that U.S. companies can better attract the most talented foreign-born computer scientists.
You might have been identified as outside the UK because your computer is on a foreign-based network, or is routed overseas (sometimes the case with work connections if your employer is not UK-based).
According to the National Science Foundation, during the last half-century, foreign-born students earned three-quarters of U.S. doctorate degrees in mathematics, engineering and computer science.
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The Microsoft chairman says there is a deficit of Americans with computer-science degrees, and he wants the government to make it easier for Microsoft to hire foreign-born workers.
No, it was a computer-driven trade based on a foreign currency.
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Matloff teaches computer science, and says there's deep public anger over foreign high-tech workers' impact on Americans.
In July, General Keith Alexander, head of the NSA, said during an interview at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, that the number of computer attacks from hackers, criminal gangs and foreign nations on American infrastructure had increased 17-fold from 2009 to 2011.
On May 18th, the Senate voted to let 30, 000 more foreign computer programmers, health professionals and other skilled workers into the United States to relieve local labour-market shortages.
Such solutions deal with only a few of "thousands of related issues, " Upson said, including how to handle product sales to American consumers that take place on American company-owned servers based in foreign countries and how to tax the sale of digital goods and intellectual property such as software and computer-generated music.
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