PROGRAM (subject to minor changes)
June 13, 2025 (Friday)
0800-0900 Breakfast, Check-in, Welcome
0900-1030 Session 1
Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia): How to Build a Brain?
Anna Karlin (U Washington): On a Corollary to One of Prabhakar's Theorems
Eli Upfal (Brown): Learning with Unknown Distribution Shift
Sandy Irani (UC Irvine): Paging Through my History with PR
Madhu Sudan (Harvard): Ask Prabhakar! : Information Search Before the WWW Era
1030-1100 Break
1100-1230 Session 2
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell): AI's Models of the World, and Ours
Andrew Tomkins (Google): Music from Big Blue: Trawling, Copying, and Formalwear
Chris Manning (Stanford): Direct Preference Optimization for LLMs
Andrei Broder (Google): Delphic Costs
Manish Raghavan (MIT): Puzzles in Research
1230-1330 Lunch (provided)
1330-1500 Session 3
Sampath Kannan (Simons/U Penn): Grad School Days
David Shmoys (Cornell): Prabhakar, Randomized Rounding, and Me
Maria Klawe (MAA): The Prabhakar Transformation
Ron Fagin (IBM Almaden): Some Interactions I had with Prabhakar
Venkat Guruswami (Simons/UC Berkeley): Segmentation Problems
Raghu Ramakrishnan (Microsoft): Why I looked up to Prabhakar-san
Al Spector (MIT): The Beginning: Prabhakar's Google Journey from Research to Launch and Beyond
Deepak Aggarwal (LinkedIn): Statistics to Recommender Systems
Jennifer Chayes (UC Berkeley): Prabhakar and Me: From Web Structure to Data Science to GenAI
Amer Diwan & Dan Ardelean (Google): Breakfast with pragh@
Preston McAfee (Google): Whatever Preston is Talking About
Yossi Matias (Google): The magic cycle of research and real-world impact
1500-1530 Break
1530-1600 Video Messages
1600-1700 Open-mic Session
1700-1900 Happy Hour (Hors d'oeuvres)
Questions? Please contact pr-fest-organizers@google.com.
