When IBM Research began looking for a major research challenge to rival the scientific and popular interest of Deep Blue, the computer chess-playing champion, what was the company's goal?
What will be an ideal response?
The goal was to advance computer science by exploring new ways for computer technology to affect science, business, and society, and which would also have clear relevance to IBM business interests.
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If a CPA is engaged by an attorney to assist in the defense of a criminal tax fraud case involving the attorney's client, information obtained by the CPA from the client after being engaged
A. Is not privileged because the matter involves a federal issue. B. Is not privileged in jurisdictions that do not recognize an accountant-client privilege. C. Will be deemed privileged communications under certain circumstances. D. Will be deemed privileged communications provided that the CPA prepared the client's tax return.
Which of the following is true of competitive marketing intelligence?
A) It can predict a firm's future but not the pattern of forces in the market. B) It cannot be collected from internal sources of a firm such as employees and the sales force. C) It requires inside information from a competitors' internal database. D) It can be obtained from information that is available in the public domain. E) It can be obtained from online databases only through subscription and a fee.