New UI professor's computer 'dreams up' some interesting flavor combinations
Lav Varshney is one of those people who eat food on a daily basis.
One of Varshney's recent research projects was to test if a human trait — creativity — can be encoded on a computer.
It can, and it makes darn good food.
Varshney, an assistant professor who came to the University of Illinois just last month, was working at IBM on a project to rival Watson, the computer who appeared on "Jeopardy."
Check out the story in The News-Gazette about CSL's Lav Varshney and his work on IBM's Chef Watson: http://www.news-gazette.com/living/2014-02-23/artificial-intelligence-tasty-real-world-results.html