My 36 hours in Portland/Beaverton are now over. After getting to the hotel room late on Thursday morning the guys and I met up for breakfast at IHOP and then broke off to watch the Croatia - Germany game before regrouping for our poster session. We literally only had to walk across the street to the IBM site, which was right next to Nike World Headquarters. Michael and I had a little trouble finding the building we needed to go, but we eventually made it. They had a tent setup, and each of us got a space to put our posters. I tried to get some extra things printed out, but ran into technical difficulties and not enough time, so I went with the slides that I had printed up in San Jose. So I spent the next 10 minutes pasting everything into place and I also got my laptop out and got a movie looping showing the automation framework that my team built. Once the poster session started it was roughly 4 hours of us alternating between standing next to our posters and talking to people about our work as they walked by and walking by other people's posters and talking to them about their work. It wasn't exactly what I was expecting but it was alright. I got to meet some new people and see some work that I hadn't heard about before. I also got to say hi to Erika (who was also presenting a poster) who had moved up to Beaverton from Almaden, and she helped us launch IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition a while back. After everything was over some of the guys and I headed downtown to check things out and have dinner. On Friday I got up at 4 AM to get to the airport and was back in San Jose by 8:30 AM. After that it was time to hit the grindstone again.
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