📅 January 21 to 29, 2025. With the goal of bringing together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career professors interested in computational social science, a new Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) will be held from January 21 to 29, 2025, at the San Joaquín Campus of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Organized…
📆January 13 to 17, 2025 Can democracy flourish while we destroy nature? This is the question posed by the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy (VioDemos) and the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB) to foster dialogue and learning, and that is why we invite you to the first Democracy and Ecology Secondary…
📆Wednesday, December 18, 2024 | 1:30 PM SUMMARY Gender expectations about ideal body types can lead to body image concerns, dissatisfaction, and, in extreme cases, eating disorders and other psychopathologies. This talk presents a study on gender expectations and body ideals in online communities related to diet, fitness, and associated mental health challenges. This work,…
SUMMARY Democracia Muerta is an essay by political scientist Juan Pablo Luna about Latin America and Chile, arguing that the problems facing democracies in the region today do not originate in institutional politics, but in much deeper structural factors that transcend leaders and the rules of the political game. The chronic weakening of democracy and…
At the Innovation and Technology Transfer Division of the IMFD (Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data), we developed a prototype that consolidates various digital data sources, including GPS bus data (from public transportation), private/personal use data, incident reports from social media (X), and data used by the Traffic Control Operations Unit (UOCT) to monitor…
In this IMFD talk, we will address the most common cryptographic primitives, which underpin most protocols used in practice, with an emphasis on block ciphers. We will begin by exploring the Data Encryption Standard (DES), created by IBM under the influence of the NSA in the 1970s, the first widely standardized block cipher, reviewing its…
As part of the Jornadas Chilenas de Computación, we invite you to take part in the 7th Foundational Data School. This time you will have the opportunity to participate in the tutorial: How to build a search engine using artificial intelligence techniques, in which they will review a modern technology stack that allows building applications…
From the Faculty of Communications comes IMFD academic and researcher Sebastián Valenzuela, as part of the Sociología UC 2024 colloquium series. Sebastián, who is also Scientific Director of the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE), and researcher at the Millennium Nucleus on Digital Inequalities and Opportunities (NUDOS), will present “¿Algoritmos de (des)información?” (“Algorithms of…
The Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering (IMC) and the Institute of Applied Ethics (IEA) of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, together with the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (CENIA), the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and the Asociación de Ética en Datos e Inteligencia Artificial (AEDIA), are pleased to invite…
Sebastián Valenzuela, academic at the UC Faculty of Communications, scientific director of the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE), researcher at the NUDOS Millennium Nucleus and IMFD, will participate in the event “Trust and Resilience in the Global Information Environment,” organized by IPIE during the United Nations General Assembly. On Tuesday, September 24, 2024,…
We invite you to the colloquium: Governing AI organized by the Doctorate in Applied Humanities of Universidad Andrés Bello. Participating: Matías Toro, academic at the Department of Computer Science of Universidad de Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). When and where: Thursday, August 29, from 10 am to…
The 4th Congress of the Sociedad Chilena de Criminología, the second held in person, will take place for the first time at the Universidad Católica de Chile, thanks to the efforts of Centro Justicia y Sociedad UC. The event will run from August 28 to 30 and will be held at the Campus San Joaquín,…
Dialogues that Transform: Conversation on the Artificial Intelligence Law What does the Artificial Intelligence Law mean for the future? What does it involve? Discover how artificial intelligence is transforming our world. Join this conversation and find out! Thursday, August 22nd at 4:40 PM at the d’Eitgny auditorium, Beauchef Campus, Universidad de Chile. Participants: – Danielle…
We invite you to participate in the discussion panel where the most notable findings of the research “Social Memory about Chileans in Wikipedia” will be presented, the study conducted between 2023 and 2024, led by the Chilean sociologist Pablo Beytía, sponsored by Wikimedia Chile and @wikimediafoundation, and in which our Alternate Director, Aidan Hogan, will…
Artificial Reasoning and ChatGPT: Toward a general AI system combining NLP with the ability to simulate human reasoning. Artificial reasoning is a field of artificial intelligence focused on uncovering the reasoning capabilities of inductive learning models. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has generated significant interest in this area, mainly due to their surprising…