11. Learning Identification Trees, Disorder
PATRICK WINSTON: Ladies and gentlemen, the Romanian national anthem. I did not ask you to stand, because I didn't play it as a symbol of Romanian national identity. But rather, to celebrate the end of the Cold War, which occurred about the time that you were born. Before that, no one came to MIT from Eastern Europe. But since that time, we've been blessed by having in our midst Lithuanians, Estonians, Poles, Czecs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Romanians, Slovenians, Serbs, and all sorts of people from regions of the world formally excluded to us. Believe me, you are all welcome in our house. Almost all, that is to say. Because you may recall that Romania is the traditional home of vampires. And since the end of the Cold War, vampires have had new vectors for emerging from their traditional places and penetrating into the world at large. You may have vampire in your suite, or on your floor. And it's important to know how to recognize them, and take the necessary precau...