Tonight is our last night in Chicago. We fly out around 1 or so tomorrow afternoon. The conference ended today.

I'm tired, so I'll try to hit the highlights of the last two days.

Yesterday was dominated by the poster session in the evening. My volunteer time was from 1 to 6 to help setup for it, so I didn't get to go to many of the sessions. We got the poster session all setup and there was food and drinks and lots of people milling about. I talked to a handful of people about their work. Some of the work I discussed was: a girl doing classification of background noises for environmental localization; a girl using sketch recognition software to better understand user interaction with tablet PCs; a guy from Harvard was showing off some changes to the standard Q-Learning algorithm. Dan had a poster there from some work that was done at BYU. We also saw two posters from University of Utah. That event covered dinner so there wasn't any other exciting trip out yesterday. After the session we ended up just sitting in the hotel room watching Hostage (we think that was the name of it), which is a rather lame Bruce Willis movie.

Today we ate lunch at Baba's again, and this time I got a picture of the store front and the bullet-proof glass counter space. Once the conference ended we headed uptown to find an Argentinian restaurant we had looked up. It was in a much nicer part of town than the Ethiopian one was. It was a rather happening spot with lots of people. It took awhile to get our food, but it was pretty good. My meal came with more than twice as much food as I needed, so by the time I finished eating it still looked like I hadn't touched it.

On the way back from dinner we made sure to stop into our favorite ice-cream shop again on Michigan Avenue. This time I had cheesecake ice-cream mixed with strawberry ice-cream with real strawberry pieces mixed in. It was quite tasty. Now we're just down at the convention center grabbing our internet before heading to bed.

Once I get back to Provo I'll post some of the pictures from the trip.

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