CPSC 201: Introduction to Computer Science

 

Instructor: Carsten Schürmann
Department of Computer Science
Yale University
Time: MWF 11:30-12:20
Room: AKW200

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Lecture 32

In this lecture we continue our presentation from the previous lecture and describe two very powerful search strategies: The A* algorithm, and the mini-max algorithm. A* is a heurstic search algorithm, and mini-max is an algorithm useful for game playing where two players play against each other.