CS Concentrations and Career Paths

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Published on 2011-02-17T19:08:44Z Indexed on 2011/02/17 23:33 UTC
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I'm approaching the end of Sophomore year in college (Studying Computer Science), and very soon I'm going to have to decide on my concentration, but I honestly don't know what each concentration means.

I basically have two questions:
1. How much influence does your concentration have on your career path? For example, would a video game development company only look at people with a concentration in Game Development?

2.It would be great if you guys could, in a line or two, tell me what sort of jobs am I looking at for each of the concentrations? I need to pick at least two of the 9 below.

    - Algorithms and Data Structures
    - Artificial Intelligence
    - Computer and Network Society
    - Computer graphics and vision
    - Human-Computer Interaction
    - Game Development and Design
    - Numeric and Symbolic Computation
    - Programming languages
    - Systems

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