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MIT 6.046J Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Spring 2015

by MIT OpenCourseWare · 34 videos

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1 1. Course Overview, Interval Scheduling 1:23:35 2016-03-04
2 2. Divide & Conquer: Convex Hull, Median Finding 1:20:35 2016-03-04
3 R1. Matrix Multiplication and the Master Theorem 53:46 2016-03-04
4 3. Divide & Conquer: FFT 1:20:52 2016-03-04
5 R2. 2-3 Trees and B-Trees 30:45 2016-03-04
6 4. Divide & Conquer: van Emde Boas Trees 1:20:15 2016-03-04
7 5. Amortization: Amortized Analysis 1:15:53 2016-03-04
8 6. Randomization: Matrix Multiply, Quicksort 1:21:52 2016-03-04
9 R4. Randomized Select and Randomized Quicksort 39:30 2016-03-04
10 7. Randomization: Skip Lists 1:20:56 2016-03-04
11 8. Randomization: Universal & Perfect Hashing 1:21:51 2016-03-04
12 R5. Dynamic Programming 52:03 2016-03-04
13 9. Augmentation: Range Trees 1:24:34 2016-03-04
14 10. Dynamic Programming: Advanced DP 1:20:08 2016-03-04
15 11. Dynamic Programming: All-Pairs Shortest Paths 1:21:49 2016-03-04
16 12. Greedy Algorithms: Minimum Spanning Tree 1:22:10 2016-03-04
17 R6. Greedy Algorithms 22:24 2016-03-04
18 13. Incremental Improvement: Max Flow, Min Cut 1:22:58 2016-03-04
19 14. Incremental Improvement: Matching 1:22:32 2016-03-04
20 R7. Network Flow and Matching 51:12 2016-03-04
21 15. Linear Programming: LP, reductions, Simplex 1:22:27 2016-03-04
22 16. Complexity: P, NP, NP-completeness, Reductions 1:25:25 2016-06-13
23 R8. NP-Complete Problems 45:47 2016-03-04
24 17. Complexity: Approximation Algorithms 1:21:08 2016-03-04
25 18. Complexity: Fixed-Parameter Algorithms 1:17:43 2016-06-13
26 R9. Approximation Algorithms: Traveling Salesman Problem 31:59 2016-03-04
27 19. Synchronous Distributed Algorithms: Symmetry-Breaking. Shortest-Paths Spanning Trees 1:17:34 2016-03-04
28 20. Asynchronous Distributed Algorithms: Shortest-Paths Spanning Trees 1:12:03 2021-07-31
29 R10. Distributed Algorithms 50:19 2016-03-04
30 21. Cryptography: Hash Functions 1:22:01 2016-03-04
31 22. Cryptography: Encryption 1:24:15 2016-03-04
32 R11. Cryptography: More Primitives 49:30 2016-03-04
33 23. Cache-Oblivious Algorithms: Medians & Matrices 1:20:28 2016-12-06
34 24. Cache-Oblivious Algorithms: Searching & Sorting 1:17:41 2016-03-04
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