I'm interested to know which programming-related areas of technology people are most interested in. If you could work on any technology/field which would it be?
Feel free to go all futuristic on me. :)
For example, some areas I'd love to work on if I could would be artificial inteligence, real-world simulations, robotics, nano-technology, cybernetic limbs/implants.
Human-machine interaction using real language, gestures etc (technically - speech, image and movement recognition and synthesis)
Industrial and home automation with embedded computer and the proper UI for it.
I would definitely love to do something with AI; although I aspire to become a game programmer it would be cool to do something bigger than that. Doing AI for the military or the space program would be really interesting.
Bio-informatics. I recently devised a solution to code duplication by applying algorithms used in that field, specifically longest common sub string/sequence, and Levenshtein "edit distance".
As hardware, give me a robot like the ones in I-Robot, then give me the API...
Other than that, possibly something in the medical field.
Hmmm, thinking about it, those robots could potentially replace doctors and nurses...
Complex information systems architecture development, which are combination of complex network solution and complex software system
Game development. And I don't mean in the "Industry". I'd love to just be able to program my ideas all day long and get paid for it.
As boring as it sounds, I'd like to work on a popular tool or framework.
I like the idea of my code running in as many programs as possible.
Robotics, as I now do. I love it because I get involved in so many cool areas of CS like network protocols, algorithms, and AI.