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Advanced Data Structures (2017)

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Re: Advanced Data Structures (2017)

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Got confused by the broken link too. Those aren't separate links. It's a single link, and given the name of the file is "poster-design.pdf", I don't think the PDF is very important. It's just an image that gives examples of what is probably covered. The real content is described below as the video lectures and notes of the class[1] and the github account[2]. There are also problem sets[3], and it recommends a couple of books[4][5], both of which are apparently free.

[1] https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/fall17/lectures/

[2] https://github.com/6851-2017

[3] https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/fall17/psets/

[4] http://epubs.siam.org/doi/book/10.1137/1.9781611970265

[5] http://opendatastructures.org/

Re: Advanced Data Structures (2017)

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post #6

the professor is a fascinating guy: http://erikdemaine.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Demaine EDIT: so is the coauthor! http://joebergeron.io/posts/post_four.html

He's obviously incredibly smart to have achieved what he did at such a young age, but he's actually a joy to listen to as well.

Re: Advanced Data Structures (2017)

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Hey! I’m a coauthor with this guy :^). Incredibly fascinating (and extremely smart) dude. His interest in origami is what drew me to MIT in the first place, since I was interested in it as well from a young age. A few years ago I took his class on the computability/complexity theory of folding, and we ended up solving an open problem in the field and published a paper out of it [0]. If you had told highschool me something like that would happen, I never would have believed it :)

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08564

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