Hospitality in Jeopardy

Drug discovery in jeopardy.

Despite striking advances in the biomedical sciences, the flow of new drugs has slowed to a trickle, impairing therapeutic advances as well as the commercial success of drug companies. Reduced productivity in the drug industry is caused mainly by corporate policies that discourage innovation. This is compounded by various consequences of mega-mergers, the obsession for blockbuster drugs, the sh...

Double jeopardy?

Watson: Beyond Jeopardy!

Article history: Received 28 May 2012 Accepted 23 June 2012 Available online 7 August 2012 This paper presents a vision for applying the Watson technology to health care and describes the steps needed to adapt and improve performance in a new domain. Specifically, it elaborates upon a vision for an evidence-based clinical decision support system, based on the DeepQA technology, that affords exp...

Cornell Hospitality

As a method of determining what types of social media messages work best for hospitality firms, this study examined what types of messages gained the most clicks of “Like” and comments on Facebook. An analysis of the number of likes and comments regarding nine hundred and eighty-two Facebook messages from ten restaurant chains and two independent operators revealed clear patterns. The more popu...

Internet Privacy Is In Jeopardy

The definition of privacy, according to Merriam-Webster, is the quality or state of being apart from company or observation. Under the rapid development of internet technology, people’s right to maintain private lives have been challenged by the massive volume of information one can access and the fast speed at which information traverse spatially. The paper explains two typical reasons why cur...