So a couple weeks ago, my colleague Ivan Elhart and I got to join Dr.Miller and Dr.Kun on a journey to Colorado for the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) conference. What can I say, it was a fabulous time. We arrived on Wednesday at 11pm (local time), so we just had time to grab some really late dinner, then head to bed. Thursday morning from 9am-12pm was the demonstration time, where TWG members were to walk around to each exhibit and take notes. Well, towards the end, it was actually cut short which made last minute rush through presentations even more hectic.
All in all, I was pretty pleased with our booth. In the morning, we got up early, and set everything up. As you can see here, we were pretty eager to get started.

Here we are all set up with the Project25 demo on the left (presented by Dr.Miller and Ivan), and the handheld demo on the right (by Dr.Kun and myself).

Ivan took some pretty good pictures during the demonstration. The room was pretty small with all the equipment and people walking around I was glad I didn’t need to wear a formal jacket.

After the demo session, the 15 minute presentations of people’s demonstrations started. There were some pretty interesting projects explained in more detail. Dr.Kun’s presentation was the next day, so we got to sit around, relax and enjoy other’s presentations.
On Friday, Dr.Kun gave his talk on the research we do here. It was tough presenting effectively, because of the limit of 1 slide for the presentation which could be divided into 4 subsections. Thus effectively reducing the distance the slides could be clearly seen from, and in essence bringing down the usefulness of the slide itself.

Other than these small details, the conference was enjoyable. The food was good, the hotel rooms were nice. Boulder is a beautiful city, for those of you who have never been there, I strongly suggest you go. Ivan and I stayed an extra few days to enjoy some snowboarding in the mountains about 1hr from Boulder.
Overall, it was a good time, and it was very educational for (I think) all of us.

András Fekete & Ivan Elhart

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