Can any one provide the list of currently working research area of computer science. There are ample number of areas and its very tough to choose one for my PhD research proposal. Can any one guide me in this regard. I shall be very thankful!
Maybe AI is hot; there have been recent advances in strategic games: successful GO bot exist (alphago). But language translation is far from being optimal.
In terms of natural language processing, as Patrick has pointed out, the most frustratingly difficult is translating English to Chinese and vice versa. There is a language translator called baidu, developed in China, that mistranslates phrases and passages more often than getting an accurate translation.
AI is one area, particularly the research on developing a robotic brain for robots such as ASIMO or Petman. An associated area of AI, is in the modelling of the operation of the human brain.