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How IBM's Watson is redefining the future of cooking

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Florian Pinel |

TED@IBM

• September 2014

Imagine an original recipe for every meal that takes into consideration dietary restrictions, personal preferences, and what is in your fridge at that moment? Meet Chef Watson, the world's first cognitive cooking application, and its head software engineer: Florian Pinel. Florian explores some of the implications for society once computers catch up with the culinary arts.

Imagine an original recipe for every meal that takes into consideration dietary restrictions, personal preferences, and what is in your fridge at that moment? Meet Chef Watson, the world's first cognitive cooking application, and its head software engineer: Florian Pinel. Florian explores some of the implications for society once computers catch up with the culinary arts.

About the speaker

Florian Pinel

Florian Pinel

Culinary engineer

Florian Pinel is a Senior Software Engineer in the Watson Life department of the IBM Watson Group. He received an M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Ecole Centrale de Paris in France and a Culinary Arts diploma from the Institute of Culinary Education in New York. His current research interests are computational creativity and cognitive computing, and he is the lead architect of the Chef Watson project.

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