Statistics + Computer Science = Machine Learning? I think to me that's the case. But also, Machine Learning describes a computer science goal, to have a comput

Statistics + Computer Science = Machine Learning? I think to me that's the case. But also, Machine Learning describes a computer science goal, to have a computer that learns certain or ideally all parts of its algorithm on its own, either from example or by experimentation. It just so happens that some of the ideas from statistics lend themselves to help computer science implement such machines that can learn. One can imagine techniques for Machine Learning being discovered in the future which leverage ideas from other fields apart from statistics.