The proliferation of information pollution and deliberate disinformation from different sectors fueled the political and social crisis of late 2019 and continue during the COVID-19 pandemic, causing alarm among the population, little trust in the authorities’ announcements, and further deepening the differences between citizens and institutions. Information pollution is also a threat in the 2020-2021…
ABSTRACT: Imprecise probabilities claim to provide a substantially broader understanding of uncertainty. The talk discusses how far this also offers new avenues for reliable statistical modeling and learning. After an informal introduction to imprecise probabilities, we consider three prototypic areas: the use of neighborhood models as a superstructure upon robust statistics, the expressive modeling of…
The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) invites you to a new edition of our Open Seminar. This time we are joined by Gloria de la Fuente, President of the Council for Transparency, to address the crucial topic of transparency in the constitutional process, from which a proposal for a new constitution will…
What are the basic concepts regulated by the Data Protection Law? What conduct does it require today, and how should it evolve once the bill that amends it and brings it closer to European standards is passed? What challenges will arise in addressing these obligations in practice? These are some of the topics of this…
Details: Friday, October 2, at 4:00 PM. Live streaming on YouTube at bit.ly/OpenSeminar7 Speaker: David Bravo, director of the Centro de Encuestas y Estudios Longitudinales at the U. Católica. Description: the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on areas such as employment, income, and the mental health of Chileans that has yet to be fully…
Location: Friday, September 4, at 4:00 PM. Live streaming via YouTube: bit.ly/OpenSeminar6 Speaker: Gonzalo Mena works at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and computational biology. He is currently at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) as a Florence Nightingale Bicentennial Fellow and Tutor in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning. Until recently, he was part…
When and where: Friday, August 21, at 4:00 PM. Live streaming on YouTube channel: bit.ly/OpenSeminar5 Speaker: Kenneth Pugh, senator for the Valparaíso Region. Description: the senator for the Valparaíso Region, Kenneth Pugh, will analyze the scope of the new Law 21.180 on Digital Transformation of the State and the implications of this process, which involves…
Schedule: Friday, August 21, at 11:30 AM. The colloquium will be held online, through this link: bit.ly/2CBJmUH Speaker: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), DCC, Universidad de Chile & Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University at Silicon Valley. Description: this talk will present the challenges behind Covid-19 data, including both…
Details: Tuesday, August 11, at 11:45 am. Videoconference via Tv.inf.utfsm.cl Speaker: Martín Ugarte, CEO of the Innovation and Technology Transfer area at IMFD.
Coordinates: Thursday, July 30, at 4:00 PM. Broadcast via Zoom and YouTube through this link: bit.ly/305q6Ik Speaker: Juan Pablo Luna, faculty member of the School of Government at the Pontificia Universidad Católica and of that university’s Institute of Political Science. He is also an associate researcher at the IMFD. Description: in light of all the…
When and where: Tuesday, July 28, at 6:00 p.m. Broadcast via Zoom at bit.ly/WebinarIArtificial Speakers: Sebastián Valenzuela, faculty member of the School of Communications at Universidad Católica and researcher at IMFD; and Saiph Savage, co-director of the Civic Innovation Lab at the Autonomous University of Mexico and West Virginia University. Description: weekly webinars on different…
Details: Thursday, July 23, at 3:00 PM. Broadcast via Zoom. Speaker: Denis Parra, associate professor of the Department of Computer Science at Universidad Católica and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Description: recommender systems have undergone significant development over the past 30 years, and events like the Netflix Prize (2006-2009)…
Coordinates: Friday, July 17, at 4:00 pm. Live streaming on the IMFD YouTube channel: bit.ly/OpenSeminar4 Speaker: Eduardo Engel, director of Espacio Público. Description: The research on the Covid-19 pandemic that Eduardo Engel has led at Espacio Público has revealed a reality in Chile that was unknown, even to health authorities. His findings have contributed to…
Coordinates: Thursday, July 9, at 3:00 PM. Broadcast via Zoom. Speaker: Martín Ugarte, CEO of the Innovation and Technology Transfer area at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Description: in the last five years Bitcoin has gained global attention, reaching in June 2020 a market capitalization of approximately 180 billion US dollars…
Data Management and Openness in Chile: Reflections on Data and Its Relationship to the Stability of Our Democracy By Jeannette von Wolfersdorff, Executive Director and Co-founder of the Observatorio del Gasto Fiscal in Chile, and Chair of the Ministerial Advisory Commission for Public Spending, associated with the Ministry of Finance. For Chile, one of the…