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Lecture 2: Models of Computation, Document Distance
- Course
- Introduction to Algorithms
- Instructor
- Erik Demaine
- Department
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Recorded
- Fall 2011
- Level
- Undergraduate
Free account required. The lecture opens at MIT OpenCourseWare.
About this lecture
This lecture describes an algorithm as a computational procedure to solve a problem, covers the random access machine and pointer models of computation, and introduces the document distance problem.
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