PROGRAM Welcoming Remarks (10:00 – 10:10 AM EDT June 18 / 00:00 – 00:10 AM AEST June 19) Juan S. Larrosa-Fuentes, ITESO University Time Block 1 (10:15 – 11:40 AM EDT June 18 / 00:15 – 01:40 AM AEST June 19) Panel 1: Case Studies in Journalism Chair: Pablo Porten-Cheé, Heidelberg University, Germany Vanessa Higgins…
ABSTRACT: DCC UC Seminars: Responsible AI In the first part we enumerate the current problems with machine learning and big data and its impact in society with many examples that cover discrimination, phrenology, stupidity and waste of resources. In the second part, we cover AI ethics and regulation initiatives as well as cultural challenges. Finally,…
RESUMEN Es bien sabido que la desinformación surge de la creciente desconfianza en las instituciones públicas y la polarización política, a menudo amplificada a través de los medios en línea. Sin embargo, los países latinoamericanos comparten características particulares que pueden agravar la prevalencia e impacto de la desinformación en las creencias y comportamientos de las…
SUMMARY As part of the engineering week organized by Centro Científico Tecnológico de Valparaíso, IMFD researcher and faculty member of the Informatics Department at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Marcelo Mendoza, will present the talk “Fake news: How can we contribute from science and technology to its detection and to preventing its spread” on Thursday,…
SUMMARY The 2019 social outburst and its institutional legacy (the current Constitutional Convention), as well as the process of profound elite renewal crystallized in the electoral surge and rise to government of the Frente Amplio, have called the “Chilean model” into question. Until 2019, this model was seen as a possible path toward development in…
SUMMARY Inaugural Lecture of the Millennium Nucleus for the Study of Politics, Public Opinion and Media in Chile (MEPOP) PRESENTED BY Magdalena Saldaña, Deputy Director of MEPOP, PhD in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Texas Austin, associate researcher at IMFD and academic at the Faculty of Communications of the P. Universidad Católica…
SUMMARY Few topics would rank higher on people’s priorities than environmental protection and the rights of nature. The concerns at hand—air pollution, environmental regulation of water, land degradation, nature conservation, marine fisheries, chemical regulation, industrial waste, and climate change—are among the leading concerns of societies and their citizens. But how do sovereign states protect their…
SUMMARY Explora Sur Poniente invites students and teachers from 2nd cycle of primary school and secondary education to its Motivational Meeting for the School Research and Innovation program PRESENTERS Lequi Deng, Huawei Chile Hernán Sarmiento, DCC U. de Chile, Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) WHEN AND WHERE Tuesday, April 19 at 5:00…
SUMMARY As part of the #100añosBeauchef activities, the launch of the book “Ingeniería chilena: Orígenes de su enseñanza y profesionalización,” written by Benjamín Armijo and Claudio Gutiérrez, will be held at #DCCUChile. PRESENTERS Patricio Aceituno, Professor Emeritus, former Dean of FCFM. Cecilia Ibarra, History of Science and Technology Lab. Luisa Pinto, Director of the School…
SUMMARY The following topics will be addressed: Survey of digital platforms and tools in political participation. Discussion of the Constitutional Convention case. Reflection on the digital dimension of political participation. PRESENTED BY Claudio Gutierrez, DCC U. Chile WHEN AND WHERE Wednesday, April 6, 2022. 6:30 PM Location: Auditorium 1 of the Campus Oriente of the…
RESUMEN Discutimos los problemas éticos detrás de asignar valores humanos —como la confianza— a los algoritmos. Dadas sus limitaciones, ¿qué tipo de relación deberíamos tener con la IA? ¿Cómo deberíamos diseñar sistemas de IA para mejorar la vida humana y la inteligencia humana? Y si no podemos confiar en la IA, ¿en quién o en…
SUMMARY This event is part of the Academic Forum for the New Constitution in Chile. What does a society and citizenship framed around ethnicity and multiculturalism mean? How can the legal system of Indigenous peoples and the Chilean judicial system coexist? This and other questions are part of the debate over the role that Indigenous…
ABSTRACT: EcoFinKG wants to reduce the distance between the database and economics/finance communities, sustaining new research-backed economic and financial applications that awarely use and demystify state-of-the-art data technology. Key note: “Harnessing the Knowledge: Languages and Models underlying Knowledge Graphs”, Renzo Angles. PRESENTER: Renzo Angles, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Talca, Chile. Renzo…
ABSTRACT In this talk, Prof. Parra will review research from the latest 20 years on visual interfaces for recommender systems considering aspects such as explainability, transparency and users’ control, how they relate to the user experience with recommendation systems, and what lessons we can synthesize from that work. Later, he will connect these results with…
SUMMARY Emmy Noether, Ada Lovelace, Sophie Germain, and Sofia Kovalevskaya are some of the most famous women mathematicians in history. But how much do we really know about them? Do we know today’s women mathematicians? What space do they occupy in science, society, or academia these days? We talked about all of this as part…