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Lecture 1: Algorithmic Thinking, Peak Finding
- Course
- Introduction to Algorithms
- Instructor
- Srini Devadas
- Department
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Recorded
- Fall 2011
- Level
- Undergraduate
Free account required. The lecture opens at MIT OpenCourseWare.
About this lecture
Overview of course content, including an motivating problem for each of the modules. The lecture then covers 1-D and 2-D peak finding, using this problem to point out some issues involved in designing efficient algorithms.
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