I'm currently looking at possibilities of continuing my professional education in 2005-2006 and became a Master in Computer Science... And want to hear some advices about directions that I can choose...

I'm skilled Perl programmer with 5+ years of expirience. My best skills - perl, DBMS, XML, I've made few complex applications for web sites. I really like this areas. I like research work, my current job related to marketing research and statistics. I really glad when I work with algorithms optimization and huge-volume data mining...

I also have two directions which I would like to choose, but not worked in that area before... (artificial intelligence in consumer products like intellectual home electronic... and all kinds of work related to graphical maps of globe, city, etc)

Could anyone just comment my "unsolid" thoughts? My best side - Perl and I would like to continue work with this basement (although I know C++ and other langs...)

What direction could you recommend? (if someone know awesome universities in USA/Canada, that could be not well-know - I'll glad to hear advices too.)

Thanks for everybody who is with Perl =)

Alex Sergeyev; abc@alexsergeyev.com