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…
Coordinates: Wednesday, June 24, at 5:30 PM. Broadcast via Zoom, prior registration required. Speakers: Vicky Murillo, professor of Political Science at Columbia-SIPA and director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University; and Juan Pablo Luna, researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and faculty member of Gobierno UC…
We invite you to our second IMFD Open Seminar this Friday, June 19, at 4:00 pm. On this occasion, we will take an in-depth look at the L·OVE platform, a digital tool that combines a range of technologies, including artificial intelligence, with the effort of a network of experts, to obtain and organize scientific evidence…
Location: Data Science seminar organized by the Faculty of Engineering and Sciences of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Streamed via Zoom. Presenter: Adrián Soto, Computer Engineer. PhD student at Universidad Católica and professor at the Department of Computer Science at the same university. Organizer: Susana Eyheramendy, researcher at our institute and Associate Professor at the Faculty of…
Coordinates: Friday, June 5, at 4:00 pm. Live streaming on YouTube: bit.ly/Open-Seminar Presenter: Eduardo Undurraga, faculty member at the UC School of Government and expert in epidemiological models. Description: this seminar will address three fundamental themes: the origin and challenges pandemics pose for science, the contributions of modeling to understanding CoVID-19, and successful international experiences…
Details: streaming conference “Cybersecurity and the Pandemic.” Monday, June 1, 2020. Speaker: Marcelo Arenas, academic at the Department of Computer Science (DCC) of the U. Católica and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), together with other experts. Organized by: Universidad de Concepción.
When: Thursday, May 28, at 3:00 PM, via the following Zoom link: zoom.us/j/9337299602. Speaker: Gerardo Chowell, professor of mathematical epidemiology at the School of Public Health of Georgia State University and chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences. He is a Senior Research Fellow in the Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies at…
Location: Wednesday, May 27 at 10:30 AM. Event organized by the Consejo para la Transparencia (Council for Transparency), in which El Mostrador participates as media partner. Speakers: Francisco Leturia, lawyer from Universidad Católica, PhD in Law, academic at Universidad Católica and Council Member at the Consejo para la Transparencia; Marcelo Arenas, Engineer, PhD in Computer…
**Coordinates**: Wednesday, March 4, at 2:00 PM. Philippe Flajolet Auditorium -3rd floor, West Building-, at Beauchef 851, Santiago. Presented by: Carlos Castillo. Abstract: Ranking in Information Retrieval (IR) has been traditionally evaluated from the perspective of the relevance of search engine results to people searching for information, i.e., the extent to which the system provides…
Coordinates: Monday, January 20, 2020, from 9:00 to 18:00, at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Errázuriz campus). Sala Entel, located at Avenida Presidente Errázuriz 3485, Las Condes. The seminar “Systematizing citizen participation” aims to present research on the analysis and systematization of citizen participation in instances such as constitutional town halls or the legislative process. Speakers include…
Coordinates: Thursday, January 9, 2020, between 8:30 and 13:00. Aula Magna Duoc UC, Antonio Varas Campus, Antonio Varas 666, Providencia, Metropolitan Region. A group of academics led by Ricardo Baeza-Yates will analyze data and its representation in today’s digital society. From algorithms to data privacy, the Encuentro Sociedad y Tecnologías de la Información will provide…
Coordinates: Wednesday, November 27, at 2:00 PM. Ramón Picarte Auditorium, third floor, north building, Beauchef 851, Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación (DCC), Universidad de Chile. Abstract: our daily life is increasingly affected by opaque (“black box”) computer systems that can have negative consequences for society, and we advocate for the need for greater regulation…
Coordinates: between November 12 and 15, 2019, in Santa Cruz, VI Region. The workshop Emerging Challenges in Databases and AI Research (DBAI) brought together 65 researchers in the field of databases and artificial intelligence from various parts of the world. This gathering was organized by Flagship Project 3 of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research…
Location: November 8 and 11, 2019, at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, in Santiago. Organizer: Leopoldo Bertossi, faculty member of the Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.