@misc{BEA20, author = { Manuel Blum and Ed Catmull and Vinton Cerf and Whitfield Diffie and Shafi Goldwasser and Pat Hanrahan and Martin Hellman and John Hennessy and John Hopcroft and Richard Karp and Alan Kay and Donald Knuth and Leslie Lamport and Butler Lampson and Yann LeCun and Barbara Liskov and David Patterson and Raj Reddy and Ronald Rivest and Richard Stearns and Michael Stonebraker and Ivan Sutherland and Robert Tarjan and Leslie Valiant }, title = { Letter to support the candidacy of former Vice President Joe Biden for President of the United States and Senator Kamala Harris for Vice President }, date = { 2020-09-18 }, OPTyear = { 2020 }, OPTmonth = { September 18, }, urla = { nytimes }, abstract = { Information technology is thoroughly globalized. Academic computer science departments attract talented students, many of whom immigrate and become American inventors and captains of industry. We celebrate open source projects, the lifeblood of our field, as exemplars of international collaboration. Computer Science is at its best when its learnings and discoveries are shared freely in the spirit of progress. These core values helped make America a leader in information technology, so vital in this Information Age. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris listen to experts before setting public policy, essential when science and technology may help with many problems facing our nation today. As American computer scientists and as US citizens, we enthusiastically endorse Joe Biden for President and Kamala Harris for Vice President. }, }