PROJECT TITLE :

What's Cooking with Chef Watson? An Interview with Lav Varshney and James Briscione

ABSTRACT:

Chef Watson may be a cognitive computing application that aims to revolutionize how people combine ingredients to form distinctive dishes with novel flavors. To facilitate justify the motivation behind and applications of Chef Watson, Florian Pinel interviews Lav Varshney, one of the creators of the project, and James Briscione, Director of Culinary Development at the Institute of Culinary Education, who has been using and testing the app since its inception. This department is part of a special issue on pervasive food.