I would first like to thank Pieter Johnson for his introduction. He has been a wonderful friend and collaborator and should be commended for his ongoing patience in the face of the terrible puns that I have sent to him through the years. I also want to thank others who supported my nomination for this award. This would not have been possible without Cam Goater, David Marcogliese, and Mark Forbes as well as two of my former graduate students, Dino and Marin Milotic, and the considerable effort by members of the ASP Awards Committee to go through the large nomination packages.

I am going to start by first explaining the title of my talk and inadvertently dating myself by doing so. “MacGyver” was a television show that originally aired 1985–1992 and spawned a set of memes that I will get to in a moment. The character MacGyver was part of...

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