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Food Development through Co-creation with AI: bread with a "taste of love"

Sera, Takuya, Kuwata, Izumi, Taya, Yuki, Shimura, Noritaka, Motohashi, Yosuke

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

This study explores a new method in food development by utilizing AI including generative AI, aiming to craft products that delight the senses and resonate with consumers' emotions. The food ingredient recommendation approach used in this study can be considered as a form of multimodal generation in a broad sense, as it takes text as input and outputs food ingredient candidates. This Study focused on producing "Romance Bread," a collection of breads infused with flavors that reflect the nuances of a romantic Japanese television program. We analyzed conversations from TV programs and lyrics from songs featuring fruits and sweets to recommend ingredients that express romantic feelings. Based on these recommendations, the bread developers then considered the flavoring of the bread and developed new bread varieties. The research included a tasting evaluation involving 31 participants and interviews with the product developers. Findings indicate a notable correlation between tastes generated by AI and human preferences. This study validates the concept of using AI in food innovation and highlights the broad potential for developing unique consumer experiences that focus on emotional engagement through AI and human collaboration.


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We have more than 30 years of experience in providing end to end IT services across the globe and have earned a reputation for delighting our customers by consistently surpassing expectations and helping them deliver robust, market-ready software products that meet the highest standards of engineering and user experience. Supported by more than 1300 exceptionally talented manpower, we are a hub for offshore support and technology services. We work with diverse industry verticals which include publishing, media, financial services, retail, healthcare and technology companies around the world. Our customers range from two-person startups to $bn listed companies. NEC Corporation is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.


Suntory Beer sets up AI-based anomaly detection system - FutureIoT

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Suntory Beer is currently implementing an AI-based facility anomaly detection system at the new can filling line at its Natural Water Beer Plan in Kyoto Japan. Traditionally, at production lines at manufacturing sites where mass production is undertaken, field personnel mainly use sensor data from equipment to monitor usage thresholds. However, there is a need for experience and know-how in order to understand the fine changes in individual data, and passing these skills along is a challenge. The beverage maker's own in-house IT team at Suntory System Technology is currently working with NEC Corporation to implement the latter's NEC Advanced Analytics-Invariant Analysis system, which is set to go live in late May. The new AI-based anomaly detection system from NEC Corporation will autonomically discover the relationships between approximately 1,500 sensors at the new can filling line at Suntory's Natural Water Plant, which will start operating in April.


NEC and VAXIMM partner to develop personalized vaccines for cancer

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NEC Corporation, a leading firm in network technologies and IT, and VAXIMM AG, a biotech firm focused on the development of oral T-cell immunotherapies, recently announced that both the companies inked a strategic agreement for a clinical trial partnership and an equity investment for the development of innovative personalized neoantigen vaccines for cancer. The terms of this non-exclusive partnership agreement, NEC will be providing funding for the Phase I clinical trial. VAXIMM and NEC will be co-developing personalized vaccines for cancer by using the advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology of NEC which is used in both of its Neoantigen prediction System and propriety T-cell immunotherapy technology of VAXIMM. Sources informed that the vaccines will be evaluated for several solid tumors in Phase 1 clinical trial. VAXIMM is given the responsibility to conduct the clinical trial that is anticipated to start in 2020.


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NEC Corporation, a leader in IT and network technologies, and VAXIMM AG, a Swiss/German biotech company focused on developing oral T-cell immunotherapies, today announced that the companies have signed a strategic clinical trial collaboration agreement and an equity investment agreement to develop novel personalized neoantigen cancer vaccines. Under the terms of the collaboration agreement, which is non-exclusive to both parties, NEC will provide funding for a Phase I clinical trial. NEC and VAXIMM will co-develop personalized cancer vaccines using NEC's cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) technology, which is utilized in its Neoantigen Prediction System, and VAXIMM's proprietary T-cell immunotherapy technology. The vaccines are planned to be evaluated in a Phase I clinical trial in various solid tumors. VAXIMM will be responsible for conducting the clinical trial, which is expected to be initiated in 2020.


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OncoImmunity AS will now become a subsidiary of NEC and operate under the name of NEC OncoImmunity AS. OncoImmunity AS, founded in 2014, is a bioinformatics company dedicated to the development of software solutions that facilitate the effective selection of patients for cancer immunotherapy, and identify optimal neoantigen targets for truly personalized cancer vaccines and cell therapies in a clinically actionable time frame. NEC announced its business strategy surrounding its AI-driven drug discovery business in May 2019. This acquisition is integral for enhancing the resources and capabilities that support the development of its individualized immunotherapy pipelines. NEC will maintain its focus on drug discovery, while NEC OncoImmunity AS continues its neoantigen prediction services.


Real-Time Facial Recognition Is Available, But Will U.S. Police Buy It?

NPR Technology

NEC Corporation of America already supplies many American jurisdictions with still photo facial recognition. Now the company says its getting law enforcement inquiries about its real-time facial recognition. NEC Corporation of America already supplies many American jurisdictions with still photo facial recognition. Now the company says its getting law enforcement inquiries about its real-time facial recognition. You've seen it in the movies for years: Security cameras find a face in a crowd, and -- Enhance! -- a computer comes up with a name.


NEC Establishes a Startup in Silicon Valley for Automating Data Analytics

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WIRE)--NEC Corporation (NEC; TOKYO: 6701) today announced the establishment of dotData, Inc., a new startup company based in Cupertino, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, that develops and globally provides software that automates data science processes using artificial intelligence (AI). NEC will obtain an exclusive license from dotData to provide this software across Japan and will start to provide the software in the first half of FY2018. "NEC is now accelerating the monetization of its competitive technologies by creating diverse alliances as part of the'strengthening of business development capabilities' in the'restructuring of execution capabilities' that are outlined in the Mid-term Management Plan 2020 that NEC announced in January 2018," said Osamu Fujikawa, senior vice president, NEC Corporation. "The establishment of dotData is the first implementation of such reinforcements and a unique strategic carve-out scheme from NEC in which a leader in core technology becomes a founder of the new company and helps accelerate its monetization as a start-up company. Going forward, NEC will continue to promote innovative measures that strengthen our business development capabilities."


Lockheed Martin and NEC to Enhance Satellites, Space Travel with Artificial Intelligence

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TOKYO, Dec 14, 2017 - (JCN Newswire) - Lockheed Martin and NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced that Lockheed Martin will use NEC's System Invariant Analysis Technology (SIAT) in the space domain. SIAT's advanced analytics engine uses data collected from sensors to learn the behavior of systems, including computer systems, power plants, factories and buildings, enabling the system itself to automatically detect inconsistencies and prescribe resolutions. NEC's advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities and Lockheed Martin's space domain expertise offer new opportunities in developing enhanced integrated satellite and spacecraft operations with uniquely developed prescriptive analytics. These include rapid assessments of changes in performance and the space environment, such as the potential influence of space weather on electronics. With this information, operators can improve product performance and lifecycle efficiency.


Lockheed selects NEC artificial intelligence software to study space data - SpaceNews.com

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The United States' largest military contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced Wednesday it will start using artificial intelligence software from NEC to analyze data collected by sensors in space. Intelligent machines are taking the technology world by storm, and have started to move to outer space. One of the most advantageous uses of smart software is to analyze data, and increasingly governments and industries see AI as the answer to the big-data deluge, much of it coming from space. "AI can revolutionize how we use information from space, both in orbit and on deep space missions, including crewed missions to Mars and beyond," said Carl Marchetto, vice president of new ventures at Lockheed Martin Space, based in Denver, Colorado. NEC Corporation is a global information technology firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.