“See, those people over there. What do they have in common? What makes them similar is this: these people do not exist, they are not real. A computer designed them, pixel by pixel. Part of what I want to tell you today relates to this: how can a computer create these images. And I’m going […]
An alliance between the Vivienda Foundation and the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data was signed on May 22nd, 2019. The research collaboration will study the myriad of factors involved in the housing precariousness in our country. […]
“Exposing the president: the political angle of a natural disaster in Chile”, es el nombre del paper de Magdalena Saldaña -académica de la Facultad de Comunicaciones de la Universidad Católica e investigadora del Instituto Milenio Fundamentos de los Datos-, que fue elegido ganador del International Symposium on Online Journalism (ISOJ) 2019, un encuentro que se […]
Bárbara Poblete, associate researcher of our institute and academic of the Department of Computer Science (DCC), of the University of Chile, was one of the organizers of LA-WEB 2019: 10th Latin-American Web Congress, an event that was part of The Web Conference (WWW) that took place this week in San Francisco, United States. The Web […]
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Barceló worked for this version of the ICDT to have a new tone: he promoted that not only theory papers would be accepted, but also those related to new topics, that had the potential for novel applications (such as machine learning), or were relevant for the industry. […]
A un primer debate sobre la posibilidad de disminuir la edad de ciudadanía a 16 años y de votación municipal a los 14 años fue invitado a participar el Instituto Milenio Fundamentos de los Datos, representado por su investigador Cristián Pérez-Muñoz, académico del Instituto de Ciencia Política de la Pontificia Universidad Católica. Se trata de […]
“On the Turing Completeness of Modern Neural Network Architectures” is the title of the research that Jorge Pérez, academic from the Department of Computer Sciences (DCC) of the University of Chile and researcher at the IMFD, presented at the International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR 2019), which took place in the city of New Orleans, […]
Data (a lot of data), pizza and beer were the ingredients of the first version of the IMFD Data, Beer & Pizza, an event that looks for —in a relaxed environment— communicate the impact of science of data in a variety of application fields. More than 100 people attended to this first meeting, organized by […]
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