We invite all our students to take part in a get-together organized by the institute. The idea of this gathering is simply to chat and get to know each other better. We will also take the opportunity to tell you about some initiatives we have prepared for you. Registration here: bit.ly/IMFD-10-21 WHERE: Terraza Galería Mackenna,…
SUMMARY With the aim of promoting the use of disruptive new technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cybersecurity, and new software platforms for retailers, 33 Grados Sur -a company specializing in technology for retail- together with the support of ProChile and the Asociación de Empresas Chilenas de Tecnología CHILETEC, will develop a series of webinars,…
SUMMARY The “9th Women in Computing Meeting (Chile-WiC 2021)” is an official ACM celebration that aims to increase the participation and retention of women in careers related to computing and technology. To achieve this, we seek to give visibility to the work done by women in these areas, both in industry and academia, and to…
ABSTRACT Online social networks are a rich resource of unedited user-generated multimedia content. Buried within their day-to-day chatter, we can find breaking news, opinions and valuable insight into human behavior, including the articulation of emerging social movements. Nevertheless, in recent years social platforms have become fertile ground for diverse information disorders and hate speech expressions….
SUMMARY Lecture series on applied ethics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. PRESENTERS Sebastian Valenzuela, Facultad de Comunicaciones at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, IMFD researcher. Marcelo Arenas, Escuela de Ingeniería at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, IMFD director. Julia Stoyanovich, Assistant Professor of Data Science Center for Data Science. Institute Associate Professor of Computer…
SUMMARY: The invitation arises within the framework of a series of webinars held by the Ministry of Science to showcase the Observa platform observa.minciencia.gob.cl, the Observatory of the National System of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation (CTCI). This initiative of the Ministry of Science, coordinated by the Office of Studies and Statistics, seeks to inform…
SUMMARY Naim Bro, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), will present a network of co-occurrences between paternal and maternal surnames in Santiago, through which the socioeconomic status of each surname was estimated, defining its geographic distribution in the city. He will show the high degrees of urban segregation found…
SUMMARY This event is part of the Academic Forum for the New Constitution in Chile, and presented during Harvard Worldwide Week 2021, and will be held in Spanish with simultaneous translation into English. The massive protests that shook Chile starting in 2019 made clear that levels of public alienation toward the political system had risen…
SUMMARY Seeking to encourage the continued engagement and empowerment of older adults in the digital world, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) will present the talk series Aprendiendo a convivir en el mundo digital, part of the 60+ Científica tu casa program of the P. Universidad Católica. PRESENTED BY Matilde Rivas, Civil…
SUMMARY The VII IDEAIS Seminar is part of the monthly seminars that seek to address topics related to the IDEAIS network: Intelligent assistants for spatial data infrastructures. These will be related to artificial intelligence, spatial data infrastructure, spatial and spatiotemporal data management in general, with a focus on carrying out open activities for the community…
Seminar series hosted by the Institute for Experiential AI: Expeditions in Experiential AI and the Distinguished Lecturer Series and organized by Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates RESUME In this presentation, Bender and her co-authors take stock of the recent trend towards ever larger language models (especially for English), which the field of natural language processing has been…
SUMMARY The challenges of protecting the privacy and autonomy of children and adolescents in the face of online education and advertising. PRESENTERS Carol Hullin, PhD in Health Informatics, University of Melbourne, Australia. Master’s in Law, U. Católica de Chile. Co-founder of the Latin American Digital Innovation Center. Lionel Brossi, Director of International Relations, Instituto de…
SUMMARY This talk introduces artificial intelligence and deep learning. The basic concepts underlying convolutional and recurrent neural networks are presented. A recent alternative model based on attention mechanisms (transformers) is also introduced. Applications of these methods to image processing and time series in astronomy and medicine are illustrated. PRESENTER Pablo Estévez received the professional degree…
Ciclo de seminarios organizado por el Institute for Experiential AI: Expeditions in Experiential AI and the Distinguished Lecturer Series, coordinado por el Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates. RESUMEN La evaluación de riesgo es una tarea popular cuando el aprendizaje automático se utiliza para la toma de decisiones automatizada. Por ejemplo, el riesgo de Jack de caer en…
ABSTRACT Graph neural networks (GNNs) provide a mechanism to bridge the discrete world of graphs to the continuous world of vectors in which machine learning methods typically operate. GNNs achieve this by computing vector representations of vertices and graphs, and are often specified as computations over adjacency matrices and feature vectors, interleaved with non-linear activation…