If speech processing is not in it's infancy, why can't my laptop tell how I'm feeling by listening to my voice? I seriously doubt you think there's no way to a

If speech processing is not in it's infancy, why can't my laptop tell how I'm feeling by listening to my voice? I seriously doubt you think there's no way to accomplish that. Perhaps we are not talking about the same thing? The tone of the article was that students were being turned away from CS as a major because they felt nothing new was happening. In response to that I'm talking more about applications of these technologies. The applications of parallel processing haven't even begun to be tapped out. Same with the applications of speech processing. I once used gp to create a soccer bot for the robocup. It took hours to train it to even kick the ball on my iMac running Mandrake. With more advanced use of parallel processing I could have trained a much more sophisticated bot -- but that was not available to me at the time. As for the theory of computation, perhaps that field is completely tapped out. I have no idea -- you would probably know better than I. Perhaps you're right. Maybe all the programs have been written (theoretically). Perhaps there's nothing left to be done. Then again, computer science has only been around since the mid 20th century. Chemistry and physics have been around much much longer. It just seems that it's a bit too early to call.