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July, 2024.- As of July 19, 2024, Aidan Hogan, alternate director of the Millennium Institute on Foundational Research on Data and member of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Chile, took over as the new director of the DCC U. Chile, a position that will be extended for a period of two years. Professor Alejandro Hevia will continue as Deputy Director.
Upon assuming this new challenge, Professor Aidan Hogan commented that today the DCC U. Chile plays an increasingly important role in the context of the country, because “computing is increasingly taking a leading role in society and in our daily lives. In this context, the DCC U. Chile has the key role of advancing the state of the art in computing, and to educate and train future leaders in this area,” he said.
In the academic’s opinion, the challenges facing our department are considerable, but they are “positive challenges”, as he explained: “The career of Civil Engineering in Computer Science continues to grow in popularity, we have six times more students than eight years ago. It is a positive challenge, as it underlines the relevance and importance of our mission, but it implies that the DCC U. Chile has to continue adapting to scale and meet this demand, and what the country requires. The second challenge lies in the speed with which the discipline changes. Today, for example, artificial intelligence is having a strong impact on society, and the state of the art in that area is constantly changing. It means that, again, the DCC U. Chile has to keep adapting not only to keep up to date, but also to be leaders in these advances in the national and international context”.
In this line, the new director expressed that among the main objectives of his administration are, “first, to find ways in which the DCC U. Chile can scale its processes to grow in a sustainable way, maintaining its community spirit, in the face of the great increase in demand, and thus take full advantage of the popularity and growing importance of the discipline. Second, to identify the direction we need to take today to remain well positioned in the future in the face of the abrupt changes in the computing discipline,” he concluded.
Source: Comunicaciones DCC U. Chile
