All rules, ranks & order were forgotten: no one listened to the announcement the area Admiral was trying to make; one crew member who had been reprimanded threw his arms around the commander's neck, calling him "the greatest little son of a bitch in the world"; another revealed that his girl sent him brandy in a maraschino cherry bottle.
With the microchip processing industry facing perhaps its biggest security scare in its history, the CEO of one of the world's biggest chipmakers, Brian Krzanich of Intel, took to the stage at a keynote at CES to say a few words about the news before launching into his planned announcements covering areas like automotive, AI and entertainment.
Another official at last week's announcement was the area's State Senator, Robert Littell, a Republican who is chairman the Senate Budget Committee.
The most significant announcement in this area has been a $367.8m promise to recruit 500 police officers, including 250 specialists to focus on e-crime, fraud and counter-terrorism.
While other companies are also rushing to reduce chip circuitry;VLSITechnology Inc. of San Jose is the latest to make an announcement in this area;Vision's partners claim they're ahead of the pack in ironing out manufacturing problems in mass-producing the chips.
Video: Mayor Michael Bloomberg orders a mandatory evacuation of parts of New York This video shows his announcement and the areas affected.
After the announcements, the pool area, previously a spot for HBO's star-dappled party, was empty save a single man swimming laps, all by himself in a sea of blue.
Currently ARO has two open BAAs (broad area announcements --the generannouncements --thedentannouncements --theh ARL) and one directed towards research infrastructure at "historically black collegeneral universities and minonety institutions".
To wrap things up, Twitter ad exec Matt Derella declared, "We want to be the preeminent complement to the live television experience" and he told Advertising Week attendees to "stay tuned" for more announcements in this area.
At a speech at Europe's CeBIT tech conference yesterday, David Cameron announced an additional £45 million in funding for research in areas linked to the Internet of Things (IoT) — taking the total pot of cash sloshing around the U.K. for helping to develop connected cutlery and the like to £73 million (factoring in a series of previous funding announcements in this area).
