| AI/Machine Learning | Including, but not limited to, machine learning, artificial intelligence, expert systems, decision theory, reasoning. |
| Algorithms | Including, but not limited to, scaleable algorithms, distributed algorithms, analysis of algorithms, computational complexity. |
| Data Mgmt./Databases | Including, but not limited to data management, databases, information retrieval, logic (first order logic, probabilistic first order logic). |
| Data Mining | Including, but not limited to, data mining, knowledge discovery, information retrieval. |
| Distributed Systems | Including, but not limited to, Web services, XML, SOA, sensor networks, P2P, grid computing, dependable computing, system management, self-* systems, autonomic computing. |
| Human-Computer Interaction | Including, but not limited to, human-computer interaction, user interfaces, interactive visualization. |
| IP Telephony/SIP | Including, but not limited to, VoIP, SIP signaling, telecom features, services over IP. |
| Math./Theoretical Computer Sc. | Including, but not limited to, mathematics, theoretical computer science, coding theory, game theory, graph theory, computational complexity, stochastic processes. |
| Natural Language Processing | Including, but not limited to, natural language understanding, natural language generation, text to speech, machine translation. |
| Network Traffic Analysis | Including, but not limited to, network traffic analysis, performance analysis, reliability and survivability analysis. |
| Networking | Including, but not limited to, network architecture and protocols, performance analysis, Internet, next-generation Internet, network management, network design, network optimization, reliability, availability, survivability, network restoration, traffic analysis, access, transport, broadband, wireless networks, cellular networks, WiFi, WiMax, ZigBee, signal processing, routing, networked systems engineering, modulation formats. |
| Operations Research | Including, but not limited to, management science, statistics, optimization, stochastic processes, queuing theory, graph theory, decision analysis, simulation. |
| Optical Systems | Including, but not limited to, fiberoptic communications, optical network architecture, optical communications, optical fiber, optical switching, optical nonlinearities, photonics, quantum communications. |
| Optimization | Including, but not limited to, network optimization, system optimization, process optimization. |
| Other | |
| Security & Cryptography | Including, but not limited to, network security, information security, cryptography, privacy, intrusion tolerance, attacks, spam, DDOS, worms, viruses, botnets. |
| Software Systems | Including, but not limited to, scalable software systems, networking software, communications software, dependable software, software testing, software verification, formal methods, programming languages, compilers, optimization, XML. |
| Speech Synthesis and Recognition | Including, but not limited to, automatic speech recognition, speech processing, text to speech synthesis, spoken language translation. |
| Speech/Text and Web Search/Mining | Including, but not limited to, speech data search and mining, text data search and mining, web search and mining. |
| Spoken & Multimodal Dialog Sys. | Including, but not limited to, dialog management, speech recognition, text to speech synthesis. |
| Statistics | Including, but not limited to, time series analysis, spatial statistics, Bayesian statistics, social network analysis. |
| Video & Multimedia Processing | Including, but not limited to, video signal processing and video quality |
| Visualization/Computer Graphics | Including, but not limited to, information visualization, computer graphics, computational geometry, interactive data analysis, human-computer interactions. |