Machine learning

Excel programming for nonprogrammersA new system allows Excel users to create customized functions for their spreadsheets simply by offering a few examples of how data should be manipulated.

Data mining without prejudiceA new technique for finding relationships between variables in large datasets makes no prior assumptions about what those relationships might be.

Robots in realityNicholas Roy designs robots for real-world challenges.

Machines that learn betterNew math will make it much easier to build machine-learning systems that tackle a wider range of problems.

Drug discovery, Netflix style?MIT researchers apply ranking algorithms to pharmaceutical R&D.