Crazy Foreign National Terrorists EVERYWHERE!
Check out this rather interesting developement. From one of the most interesting blog’s I’ve come across so far : Preposterous Universe
From the post:
One obvious side-effect of the decline of high-energy physics in the U.S. is that we will be attracting fewer talented scientists from outside the country. But why limit ourselves to such indirect measures? Now the Department of Commerce wants to make it much more difficult for foreigners to get research done in the U.S. The idea is to require a special license for each foreign national who will be doing research with an “export controlled instrument” — a vague category that depends on what country you’re from, but might include things like powerful computers. So if your Chinese grad student wants to use a supercomputer to model the growth of structure in a cosmological simulation, they will have to wait until a license comes through, which will probably take a few months.
Here’s an email from Judy Franz, Executive Officer of the American Physical Society, to physics department chairs (of which I am not one, but it’s being forwarded around). This change would make many foreign students and visiting scientists into second-class citizens, and further diminish the reasons anyone might have to come to the U.S. to do research.
It really does just keep getting better and better.
