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Forrest Bao | 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 retweeted
I just went to NSDI, a top venue for computer systems research. Change in papers' src country:
2015 2025
USA 76% 45%
China 10 42
Other 14 13
China's research investments are bearing fruit, while the US is gutting science funding.
Forrest Bao | 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 retweeted
@mino98 ran the numbers for SIGCOMM:
2016 2026
USA 79% 34%
China 10 57
Other 10 9
"In 2016 the US produced 8x as many papers as China. In 2026 .... China alone has more than everyone else combined."
Forrest Bao | 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 retweeted
Le nom du lac Ontario tire son origine du mot wendat « Ontari’io », qui signifie « le lac est beau, le lac est grand ».
Ce nom remonte à plus de 400 ans, bien avant la Confédération canadienne et la Déclaration d’indépendance des États-Unis d’Amérique.
Nous savons que les États-Unis sont en train de changer. Leurs relations commerciales, leur politique étrangère, leurs monuments nationaux, leurs hydronymes.
Les Canadiennes et les Canadiens savent aussi qu’il faut appeler les choses par leur nom, et ce lac se nomme Lac Ontario – aujourd’hui et pour toujours.
Forrest Bao | 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 retweeted
ICE just published a new memo (BCM 2608-01) targeting international students. It effectively blocks universities from authorizing CPT internships that are not strictly mandatory for every student to graduate.
Even though internships in CS are not technically required for a degree, they greatly benefit both employers and students. They help students get familiar with the U.S. professional system. They also give American employers early access to a vital talent pipeline from top American universities.
This policy change cuts U.S. employers off from vital STEM talent pipelines and tells the world’s brightest minds to go elsewhere. This is terrible for our national interest and global competitiveness.
We need to retain top talent, not criminalize academic internships.
The founder of Kimi is a US-educated PhD. Had we fixed our broken immigration system, Kimi would have been an American company. But we failed to give him a green card when he became a PhD. So he went back to the China and build a competitor there.
Trump has completely killed the spark of American innovation by cutting research spending and touting his anti-immigrant rhetoric.
How can ACL conferences maintain a 25% acceptance rate when the submissions are flooded with low-quality papers in recent years? Papers I reviewed in recent years have an acceptance rate between 1/6 and 1/8 -- based on the majority votes of reviewers for the same papers.
