Norman Matloff

Norman Saul Matloff (born December 16, 1948) is an American professor of computer science at the University of California, Davis. He received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975 from the mathematics department at the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Thomas M. Liggett.

Quotes

• New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said that the Intel competition "identifies and honors the top math and science students in America, based on their solutions to scientific problems."
• The contest doesn't rank talent in the same way we identify the fastest hurdlers or longest jumpers.
• most top science and math students don't participate in such national contests.
• Project-oriented contests such as Intel aren't measures of scientific brilliance
• A past winner ... told the STEM education newsletter Metroplex Math Circle about choosing among projects offered by her university mentor
• Professor Miriam Rafailovich... told me ...that the contestants "get massive coaching from the schools
• There is even a how-to book, "Success With Science: The Winners' Guide to High School Research,"
• many contestants have immigrant parents
  • "Intel's overated high school science contest" (March 12, 2014)

• In case after case, we see tech titans and entrepreneurs misbehaving or breaking the law. They push the boundary of acceptable or ethical behavior that most of us have to play by. Even if some of them provide the technologies of tomorrow, it doesn’t mean they can operate under different set of rule
  • "What’s wrong with tech leaders?" (July 8, 2014)

• Three of the president’s proposals target tech. This is especially true in that the foreign workers are overwhelmingly young, thus exacerbating the rampant age discrimination that we already have in the tech world
  • "Winners and losers from President Obama’s immigration plan" (Nov. 25, 2014)

• The H-1B program authorizes non-immigrant visas under which skilled foreign workers may be employed in the U.S., typically in computer-related positions. Congress greatly expanded the program in 1998 and then again in 2000, in response to heavy pressure from industry, which claimed a desperate software labor shortage. After presenting an overview of the H-1B program in Parts II and III, the Article will show in Part IV that these shortage claims are not supported by the data. Part V will then show that the industry's motivation for hiring H-lBs is primarily a desire for cheap, compliant labor. The Article then discusses the adverse impacts of the H-1B program on various segments of the American computer-related labor force in Part VI, and presents proposals for reforms in Part VII.
  • "On the Need for Reform of the H-1B Non-Immigrant Work Visa in Computer-Related Occupations" University of Michigan Law School