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Details of A computer that kitchen

The Icosystem, a society of Cambridge (Massachusetts), is working to the realization of a computer in a position to cooking and quite to invent new prescriptions. The search is financed with 75.000 dollars from the Institute for advanced concepts (Niac) of NASA, that it hopes therefore to improve the stay of the astronauts in orbit. Neither on the Shuttle neither on the Station it spaces them international, in fact, there is a freezer, and in eventual missions towards Mars, of the duration of years, the culinari problems would be still more serious.

The machine that kitchen promises to little create in time the preferred plates from the customer. The demand comes translate in mathematical formulas, and the machine realizes the plate beginning from ready ingredients. First part of the plan has the scope to develop to a symbolic language -- mathematician in order to describe foods, prescriptions and the relative preparations, and has been entrusted to Hervé This, a physicist -- chemical expert Parisian of molecular gastronomia, under the supervision of chef the Pierre Gagnaire. Subsequently, the Icosystem will develop the software with which the machine it will operate. While, the investigators of the Californian society Squid Labs are studying some practical problems us, like the management and the pulizia of the machine.

But the possible adressees of the electronic cook are not alone astronauts: as Bonabeau explains, "this plan will be able to turn out useful in a generalized manner also for the gastronomica industry", and Bonabeau does not exclude of being able to find it a day to the angle of the road.