Speaking at the 2011 High Performance Computing for Wall Street, Edward Epstein of IBM Research, explained that Watson was designed to work with natural language content and deep analysisdrawing on all the available content.
Similarly, the company keeps focusing on when executives at Merck and Schering knew the results of the controversial cholesterol study, when most of their critics really accuse them of drawing out the analysis, essentially delaying when they would get a clear answer.