📅 Wednesday, September 16 | 12 pm Chile time (6 pm CEST) For the fourth consecutive year, the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE) presents the perspective of those who study the information environment —the ecosystem through which people produce, disseminate, and access information, today under pressure from disinformation, lack of platform accountability, and…
📅 Friday, September 4 | 15:00 CET (Online) We invite you to take part in the online panel «The Evolution of KG Refinement: Past (Pre-LLM), Present (LLM-Era), and Future», which will bring together four experts to reflect on the evolution of knowledge graph refinement. Among the panelists is Aidan Hogan, deputy director and faculty member…
📆 Friday, September 4th from 8:45 AM Nuestra MemorIA invites you to take part in the ➡️ 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿: 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗦𝗶𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 ⬅️ organized together with the Faculty of History, Geography and Political Science of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, on Friday, September 4th from 8:45 AM in the Faculty’s auditorium,…
📆 Santiago · Viña del Mar · Concepción Before adopting artificial intelligence tools, every organization faces a question that is rarely answered: do we really know the state of our data? The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) invites you to a free, in-person theoretical-practical workshop —with a final hybrid session—, aimed at…
📆Fridays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. We know how hard it can be to sit down and write a thesis or a paper. It has been shown that taking part in regular writing workshops helps improve productivity, since it provides motivation, structure, and companionship. That is why we are bringing back our collective writing…
📅 Wednesday, August 5 | 2:30 to 4:00 PM Can artificial intelligence really be responsible? In this conference, Professor Ricardo Baeza-Yates, recently awarded the Luiz André Barroso Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), also a Senior Researcher at IMFD, will analyze some of the main challenges posed by AI today: discrimination; pseudoscience; technological…
📅 Monday, July 27 to Friday, July 31 | 09:30 hrs We invite you to take part in the Leiden ↔ Chile International Research Seminar on Computer Science and AI, a five-day research seminar and workshop that will take place at the Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas (FCFM) de la Universidad de Chile, and…
📅 Monday, July 13 | 3:00 PM We invite you to attend the talk «Vector Search on Columnar Storage», given by Peter Boncz, Senior Researcher at CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) and professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands. Peter Boncz is internationally recognized for his contributions to database systems: he is the creator of the…
📅 Thursday, May 14 | 1:00 PM We invite you to take part in a new IDIA Talk: “From code to specification: how LLMs are transforming software development” together with Matías Toro, faculty member of the Department of Computer Science (DCC) at the FCFM, Universidad de Chile, and researcher at PLEIAD and IMFD. His academic…
📅 Thursday, May 7 | 2:00 PM This activity will take place on Thursday, May 7, led by Juan Pablo Luna, associate researcher at VioDemos and IMFD, professor at the Escuela de Gobierno UC, and Full Professor at McGill University (Canada), where he holds the Diamond-Brown Chair in Democracy Studies. The workshop aims to explore…
📅 Monday, April 27 | 4:30 PM AI in Academic Research is an activity organized by the Vice-Rectory for Digital Intelligence, in collaboration with the Vice-Rectory for Research and Graduate Studies, UC Libraries, and the Directorate of Teaching and Educational Innovation, inviting the UC community to reflect on the impact, opportunities, and challenges of artificial…
📅 Tuesday, April 21 | 11:00 am ML Evaluation is usually based on an average measure of success such as accuracy. This kind of evaluation has several drawbacks: (1) the model works well for easy instances but badly for difficult ones, but the actual real distribution is usually not known; (2) this assumes that all…
📅 Friday, April 17 | 10:00 am Organized crime has become a structural factor that redefines political, economic, and social life in Latin America. Its expansion goes beyond drug trafficking to include flexible networks devoted to human and arms trafficking, illegal mining, corruption, and cybercrime. These networks compete with the State through economic and coercive…
📅 Friday, July 24 | 3:00 PM The IMFD Researcher and academic at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, will be an Invited Speaker at the workshop “Logical Approaches to Handling Inconsistent Data” (LINDA), which will be held alongside the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning conference (KR’2026) as part of the Federated Logic conference (FLoC’2026),…
📅 Monday, March 23 | 09:00 hs The 14th International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems will be held from March 23 to 26 in Hanover, Germany Leopoldo Bertossi will present alongside Felipe Azua the research “Causality-Based Scores Alignment in Explainable Data Management” The FoIKS symposia provide a biennial forum for presenting and…