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I've just graduated good university (not Ivy League, but pretty far up there) with my bachelors in CompSci, and now I need to figure out what to specialize in.

What are my options? (i.e. what fields are worth looking into for an actually intelligent human being where I can continue to learn and use technical skills, actually be appreciated, etc)

Bioinformatics:

Algorithms for folding at home (determining how proteins fold, or how ribozymes will fold) neural networks, sequence recognition within genomes, searching for sequence homologies across species, etc.

There is a 1000 genomes project starting, where millions little bits of DNA from 1000 people will be sequenced in an effort to put together.  Genome sequencing is growing at an exponential rate (this project alone will result in 60 times the sequencing data that has ever been sequenced,) so you could see why working on programs that assemble the small sequences of genes into entire genomes would be important.

As a student of molecular biology, these projects seem fascinating... definitely more interesting than just coding business applications, plus you get to learn about cellular biochemistry as you go along.  From the few bioinformatics assignments I have had to do, you don't need to know that much about biology to become a bioinformatician, but it's interesting all the same.