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