Ask HN: Which are good computer science problems to work on right now?

Post by lazyjones » Wed, May 07, 2014, 4:06 PM UTC

mrfusion wrote: post #10

lazyjones wrote: post #5

* User interfaces for VR helmets. * client/server web frameworks based on BigPipe-like (Facebook) architecture * turning real world problems into MMOGs in order to crowdsource solutions * peer-to-peer web infrastructure over multiple networks/communication channels (to counter surveillance, ISP filtering, natural disasters...)

I like the idea about real world problems. Can you think of any examples?

Post by TotalEclipse » Thu, May 08, 2014, 2:25 AM UTC

Post by arunaugustine » Fri, May 09, 2014, 1:06 AM UTC

taf2 wrote: post #9

Speech Recognition, it's a hard problem to solve - but maybe with your time you can offer some interesting solutions. Text IMO is very well covered part of our field, but speech is still very much lacking. Even image recognition has more attention than speech recognition IMO.

Post by taf2 » Sat, May 10, 2014, 12:31 AM UTC

arunaugustine wrote: post #15

taf2 wrote: post #9

Speech Recognition, it's a hard problem to solve - but maybe with your time you can offer some interesting solutions. Text IMO is very well covered part of our field, but speech is still very much lacking. Even image recognition has more attention than speech recognition IMO.

Speech recognition is an important problem, but if the problem solver does not have an angle of attack, it does not make sense to try and solve it just yet . To quote Richard Hamming from his lecture "You and your research", "It's not the consequence that makes a problem important, it is that you have a reasonable attack."