Her father is the vice president, in Wallingford, Conn., for the neuroscience drug discovery division of Bristol-Myers Squibb, the pharmaceutical company.
"Industry jobs do tend to prize creativity, but within the confines of a predefined goal," says Paul M. Matthews, vice president for imaging and head of the GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Imaging Centre in Hammersmith Hospital within the company's drug discovery division.
"The plaintiffs asked for 500 keywords to search on," said Mike Sullivan, chief executive of Autonomy Protect, the company's e-discovery division.
This method of discovery is called division, and in its most usual form it is the repeated dichotomy of a general kind into two subordinate kinds.
Many key discoveries about cell division were initially made using budding yeast.
For example, students who are non science majors or early in their undergraduate careers may perceive any lab learning experience with outcomes unknown to them as "discovery," while upper-division majors might view discovery and relevance more narrowly as experiences in which they have the potential to present their work to a broader scientific community or publish their findings.
But a new discovery suggests that this division of the world may not have been quite so clear-cut.
Another Hispanic media company taking an aggressive stance during its upfront presentation this week was Discovery U.S. Hispanic, a division of Discovery Communications that operates two cable channels for Spanish-speaking viewers, Discovery en Español and Discovery Familia.
Historically, the risk has been demonstrated in incidents like the discovery of an obscure division bug in Intel's Pentium microprocessor in 1994 and, more recently, in a multiplication bug in Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program, he wrote.
That discovery led Kraft Foods, a division of Philip Morris, to recall millions of taco shells and led to a number of smaller recalls and serious disruptions in the nation's grain supply system.
For Poirier, the key message was that R&D groups have a mandate of innovation and discovery, whereas the marketing division's mandate is to do what is necessary to sell the drug and provide profits for the company shareholders.
