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.


Lecture Notes : http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms-fall-2011/lecture-videos/MIT6_006F11_lec01.pdf