I came first to work at Bell Labs on a J-1 visa, because I thought I'd stay only a year or two.
But I stayed longer and got an H1-B visa.
Then I got a green card....
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But after Bush's re-election, I just wanted to be able to vote and kick out the neocon bastards.
So I became a citizen just in time to vote for Barack Obama.
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I have personally co-created and managed academic institutes, industrial labs, and startups that employ hundreds of people.
My research work has contributed to creating a whole new industry.
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This is pure suicide. As I wrote in a previous FB post, this will set a new record in the history of Shooting Yourself in the Foot.
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Among the 13 postdocs who have worked with me at NYU, only 1 was a US citizen.
Among the 122 co-authors of my papers listed on my Google Scholar page, 22 were born American.
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- Facebook AI Research has labs in Paris, Montréal, London and Tel Aviv.
- NYU has full-fledged campuses in Shanghai and Abu Dhabi.
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