Diego Sáez Trumper is a Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation, the NGO that operates Wikipedia. He previously worked as a researcher at industry labs such as Yahoo Labs and NTENT, as well as in academic settings such as the Universities of Cambridge (United Kingdom), Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), and Pompeu Fabra (Spain), where…
The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) invites you to its “Mojito al Dato” activity, an event that, in a close and relaxed format, seeks to bring the most diverse topics of data science closer to society. The gathering will take place on Tuesday, September 3, 2019, from 8:00 pm, at Pub Blue…
As part of the 2019 cycle of Open Seminars held by the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), on Friday, August 30, 2019, the national director of the Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas, Guillermo Pattillo, will give a talk sharing the strategic goals and projects the INE has set out. These include: the statistical…
In the last decade there has been a significant increase in opposition to dirty production projects. While citizens mobilize and turn protest into a tool of resistance, business sectors claim excessive delays in the processing of initiatives. What variables affect environmental assessment timelines? Is protest a significant blocking factor? In this panel discussion we will…
When: Thursday, July 4th, at 11:00 am. Where: Ada Lovelace Room (3rd Floor, Torre Poniente, Beauchef 851, Santiago) Organized by: Éric Tanter, academic at the Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, IMFD associate researcher. Abstract: As a research area, gradual typing has grown considerably over the last decade, with more than 150 papers in…
WHEN: Wednesday, July 3, 2019, 09:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. WHERE: Cerro el Plomo 5755, Las Condes, Santiago. On Wednesday, July 3, City AI will be held in Chile for the first time, an international event whose purpose is to promote the diverse and responsible application of Artificial Intelligence with a view to the development…
In the III Open Seminar #IMFD of the year, we are joined by Tomás Barros, general manager of Evoting, who will give the talk “Electronic voting: applied cryptography in the neighborhood association.” In it, he will address Evoting’s technical solution, its engineering, cryptography, and cloud deployment, as well as other details of the electronic voting…
At the II Open Seminar of the IMFD, David Bravo, economist from the Universidad Católica de Chile, Master’s in Economics from Harvard University, USA, and director of the UC Center for Surveys and Longitudinal Studies, will present the work carried out by the center he directs. This is a multidisciplinary space devoted to research for…
IMFD TECHNICAL TALK: Data Privacy by Programming Language Design ABSTRACT: Data privacy is a growing concern for every individual, businesses, government, and organization. For example, some companies actively sell private information to third parties without customer consent, provoking increasing privacy concerns. At the same time, personal data can produce positive effects in society: companies perform…
Technical Talk: “In-Memory Data Mining via Succinct Data Structures” ABSTRACT: “We often use “Big Data” techniques when most users only have “big data”. “Big data” can often be handled efficiently by applying standard algorithms developed, tried and tested but coupled with succinct data structures to reduce the memory usage of such algorithms, thus allowing the…
OPEN SEMINAR IMFD: Patterns of Inequality in Post-Industrial Societies and Implications for Latin America. WHERE: Auditorio de Letras, Facultad de Letras. Campus San Joaquín, Pontificia Universidad Católica (Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Santiago). DATE/TIME: April, Monday 29th, 18.00 (06 PM). Evelyne Huber: Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel…
How can computers understand natural language today? What can trigger a troll on social media, and what does incivility on these platforms respond to? Are computers all-powerful, or do they have limits to their capabilities? Magdalena Saldaña, associate researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and faculty member at the School…
Admetricks is a Chilean company dedicated to market intelligence for internet advertising. Its CTO and founder, Patricio del Sol, will explain in this talk how a 100% data-based company works. He will cover everything from the team, to how its clients s\ucceed with data, how they operate and process information, technological architectures and design patterns,…
The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) will hold a presentation of its research work for all students and academics of the Universidad de Concepción interested in doing data science with a multidisciplinary approach. IMFD brings together professors and students from Computer Science, Journalism, Political Science, Statistics, Architecture, and Design, among many other…
Bárbara Poblete, faculty member of the Department of Computer Science of the Universidad de Chile and researcher at our Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), will present at the 2019 edition of the successful Noches Nerd. In her talk “No crea todo lo que lee: las redes sociales bajo la lupa” (Do not…