Lecture : Search engines and society – information quality and artificial intelligence

The École normale supérieure and Google are pleased to invite you to a lecture by Prabhakar Raghavan
Senior Vice-President, Knowledge & Information on the theme:

‘Search engines and society: information quality and articial intelligence’

Prabhakar Raghavan is one of Google’s leading executives and technologists. Having moved from the laboratory to the operational reality of running a search engine, Prabhakar will discuss the crucial issues facing search engines in terms of research, public policy and society, focusing on information quality and the potential of AI. His speech will be followed by a discussion with Isabelle Ryl, Vice-President of PRAIRIE.

The event will be held in English, a translation system will be available in the room.

Bio

Prabhakar is responsible for Google’s Knowledge & Information products globally. He and his team of technologists and engineers around the world run the Google products that most commonly come to mind, including Google Search, Gemini, News, Maps, Advertising, Assistant, Commerce and Payments. Prabhakar is a leading technologist and brings over 20 years of experience in research on algorithms, web search, and databases. He has published over 100 papers, issued 20 patents, and written 2 graduate textbooks. He’s a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, and IEEE, and was a Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University (where he first met Google’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were students there).

Isabelle Ryl is a Professor of Computer Science and the co-founder and director of PRAIRIE (PaRis Articial Intelligence Research InstitutE) at Université PSL, one of the four Interdisciplinary Articial Intelligence Institutes recognized under the French national strategy.
Isabelle Ryl holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Lille and has spent over 12 years at INRIA in various management roles. As an expert in innovation, particularly in articial intelligence, she has served on the French Innovation Council, an interministerial body responsible for dening the major directions and priorities of innovation policy. She is a Knight of the Legion of Honor. In March 2024, Isabelle Ryl was appointed Vice President for Articial Intelligence at Université PSL.