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Waxman Staff Writer Mar 5, 2014 4:31 PM UTC First, _Jeopardy!_ champions Ken Jennings and Ben Rutter [got served ](http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2049187%5F2049195%5F2049266,00.html)by Watson, the IBM supercomputer. Now, Watson is serving up dishes from a food truck as part of a new partnership with the Institute of Culinary Education in New York, NPR [reports](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/03/03/285326611/our-supercomputer-overlord-is-now-running-a-food-truck?utm%5Fmedium=facebook&utm%5Fsource=npr&utm%5Fcampaign=nprnews&utm%5Fcontent=03042014). The supercomputer made its debut as a chef at a Las Vegas tech conference last week, and so far has produced gourmet, fusion fare like a Swiss-Thai asparagus quiche, an Austrian chocolate burrito, and a pork belly moussaka. Named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, the supercomputer comes up with creative meals based on a series of algorithms, [according to](http://www.research.ibm.com/software/IBMResearch/multimedia/Cognitive-Cooking-Fact-Sheet.pdf) the company’s website: --- > “” --- (**MORE**: [Watson’s path to profits is anything but elementary](http://business.time.com/2014/01/22/for-ibm-watsons-path-to-profits-is-anything-but-elementary/)) IBM hopes Watson will become a lucrative revenue stream, TIME [recently reported](http://business.time.com/2014/01/22/for-ibm-watsons-path-to-profits-is-anything-but-elementary/), after the company’s sales fell for seven straight quarters and its stock price dropped — arguably due to changes within the technology industry and the larger shift from PCs and printers toward software and services. “Cloud computing” is now a formidable competitor, and IBM executives have “projected” that Watson, which operates in the cloud, will generate $1 billion in revenue by 2018, the [_Wall Street Journal_](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303754404579308981809586194)reports. However, three years after its _Jeopardy!_ debut, the supercomputer has only produced $100 million, [according to](http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303754404579308981809586194) the newspaper. So at the beginning of 2014, “IBM announced that it will invest more than $1 billion into the Watson Group, including $100 million for venture investments to support start-ups and businesses that are building a new class of applications powered by Watson,” TIME [reported](http://business.time.com/2014/01/22/for-ibm-watsons-path-to-profits-is-anything-but-elementary/). The food truck will be at [SXSW](http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/cognitivecooking/truck.html), the music and tech festival in Austin, Texas, from March 7 to 11. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/12912/ibms-supercomputer-watson-is-now-a-chef-with-his-own-food-truck/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/12912/ibms-supercomputer-watson-is-now-a-chef-with-his-own-food-truck/"},"headline":"IBM's Supercomputer Watson Is Now a Chef With His Own Food Truck","datePublished":"2014-03-05T16:31:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:07:30.099Z","description":"Testing the creative capabilities of computers","url":"https://time.com/12912/ibms-supercomputer-watson-is-now-a-chef-with-his-own-food-truck/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Innovation","Technology","Business topic","IBM","SXSW"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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