Hi, my name is Peter Avalro and I'm from UC Berkeley and this is my first keynote
talk. So, thank you for coming and thank you for honoring me by asking me.
The talk is called "Outwards from the middle of the maze," although, if I'm
going to be totally honest, that was the original title of the talk, when I thought
I was giving a straight-ahead research talk - that's number four - about my
current, sort of nascent project. But when I learned that the talk had been upgraded
to a keynote, I thought, "Ah, geez, I should go for it, right? I've got the
bully pulpit, so I should do some of the things that you see in keynotes, like, I
should deliver a little bit of a polemic (that's number one). I'm an academic,
right, so I should deliver some kind of lesson (that's number two). I should
present a survey of the state of the arts