This presentation is part of the lecture series "Expanded Fields", organized by the Master in Architecture UC (MARQ). Susana Eyheramendy holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Chile and Statistics from the Catholic University of Chile. D. in Statistics from the State University of New York.
The studies "Sobre la victimización por violencia interpersonal en Chile" and "Propuesta de Índice de Percepción de Inseguridad" will be presented by Fabián Duarte, director of the Economics Department, and Lorena Flores, executive director of the Microdata Center. Both studies will be commented by a panel of experts formed by...
IMFD researcher and academic of the Faculty of Communications of the Catholic University of Chile, Magdalena Saldaña, will present on "Journalism in Latin America: threats and innovations" in the course "Key readings in international journalism research" at the Universität Salzburg, invited by Prof. Dr. Thomas Birkner.
📅 Friday, May 9 and Saturday, May 10 | 9 a.m. The Clinical Natural Language Processing Course seeks to train engineers or healthcare personnel in understanding and applying the key concepts of natural language processing (NLP). "It is a way of describing the transformative impact of these technologies....
On this occasion, the inaugural lecture will be given by Dr. Marcelo Mendoza Rocha, an academic from the Department of Computer Science at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, who will give a talk entitled "Artificial Reasoning and ChatGPT: towards a general AI system based on the...
The Microdata Center (CMD) of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Chile, together with the Undersecretariat for Crime Prevention (SPD) are pleased to invite you to the presentation of the studies On the victimization by interpersonal violence in Chile and Proposal of a new methodology for the prevention of crime....
📅 Friday, April 11 | 9.30 am We invite you to the seminar Presidential 2025: AI, Transparency and Democracy, which will address the impact of artificial intelligence in election campaigns, in addition to its relationship with transparency and democracy. In this opportunity the IMFD researcher, Sebastián Valenzuela, academic @fcomuc, will be participating in the panel...
📅 Monday, April 14 | 5.30 pm We invite you to the launch of: "Juegos de niñas y ñoños: una breve memoria no binaria", a book by ChaTo (Carlos Castillo), edited by Trazos de Aves. Carlos Castillo (they/them) is ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he leads the research group Web Science and Social...
📅 March 10-14, 2025. Khipu: Latin America Meeting in Artificial Intelligence, will be held for the first time in Santiago de Chile from March 10-14, 2025. For more information visit their website and you can also check their social networks.
📅 January 21-29, 2025. With the aim of bringing together graduate students, postdocs and early career faculty interested in computational social science, a new Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) will be held from January 21-29, 2025, at the...
January 13 and 17, 2025 Can democracy flourish while we destroy nature? This is the question posed by the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy (VioDemos) and the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB) to promote dialogues and learning and that is why we invite you to the first Democracy and Ecology High School that...
📆Wednesday, December 18, 2024 | 13.30 ABSTRACT Gender expectations about ideal body types can lead to body image concerns, dissatisfaction, and, in extreme cases, eating disorders and other psychopathology. This talk presents a study of gender expectations and body ideals in communities in...
ABSTRACT Democracia Muerta (Dead Democracy) is an essay by political scientist Juan Pablo Luna on Latin America and Chile that argues that the problems facing democracies in the region today do not originate in institutional politics, but in much deeper structural factors that transcend leaders and the rules of the game....
At IMFD's Innovation and Technology Transfer Department, we developed a prototype that consolidates various digital data sources, including GPS bus data (from public transportation), private/private use data, incident reports on social networks (X) and data used by the Operational Unit of Traffic Control (UOCT) to monitor aspects of traffic control....
In this IMFD talk, we will address the most common cryptographic primitives, which underpin most of the protocols used in practice, with an emphasis on block ciphers. We will begin by exploring the Data Encryption Standard (DES), created by IBM under the influence of the NSA in the 1970s, the first widely standardized block cipher, reviewing its history and its...