What's your favorite computer science topic?

opminion · on March 28, 2013

Information theory and its relationship with probability, learning and inference, and with theory of computation.

The reason is that Algorithmic Information Theory provides a unifying view. Not terribly practical, though, but neat.

mcartyem · on March 28, 2013

Mine is compilers. Which is another way of saying: automating; reducing the work I have to do manually.

voidlogic · on March 28, 2013

Systems Software (OS, VMs, Compilers, etc)

nrgc · on March 28, 2013

Used to be a huge fan. After implementing an educational OS, I lost interest.

rtcoms · on March 28, 2013

data structures and algorithms

codemonkeymike · on March 28, 2013

This. Basis of all CS and I went through school without learning it.

hiqualia · on March 28, 2013

Computer Vision.

rob-alarcon · on March 27, 2013

Machine Learning

kombinatorics · on March 28, 2013

This + Data Mining & Neural Networking.

nrgc · on March 28, 2013

^^ agreed.

segmondy · on April 1, 2013

artificial intelligence

toutouastro · on April 10, 2013

parsing

tagabek · on March 28, 2013

In school: Java (Not really a 'topic')

On my own: Objective-C, iOS Development, Native Mobile Development, Object-Oriented Programming, Memory Management, Human & Mobile Computer Interaction

It's safe to assume that I am really excited about the mobile world. I still love my laptop and plan on building a desktop next year; but iOS, Android, and Windows RT fascinate me. It may sound weird, but I love watching how people interact with their mobile devices. I always ask people which apps they like, what phone they are using/want, and what they would like to have that DOESN'T EXIST. As a developer, I find it both intriguing and useful to know what others want out of the software that is accessible to them.

Other Interests: Idealistic Virtual Reality, The Economics of Bitcoins, Mobile Battery Efficiency