Researchers Diego Arroyuelo (DCC UC) and Gonzalo Navarro (DCC UChile), together with the UTFSM PhD student, co-advised by Arroyuelo, José M. Cazorla, received the Best Paper Award at GRADES-NDA 2026 —a workshop associated with SIGMOD/PODS— for a technique that makes Qdags, a graph data structure published by IMFD researchers in 2022, much faster. A team…
Juan Reutter, Domagoj Vrgoč and Pablo Barceló are among the seven winners of the 2026 Alonzo Church Award, one of the most prestigious recognitions in logic and computation worldwide, for research that laid the groundwork for new international standards in data querying. Three researchers from the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) were recognized…
The directors of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), Juan Reutter and Aidan Hogan, were distinguished by members of the evaluation committee of two of the leading international research forums in databases. Every year, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) organizes the SIGMOD and PODS conferences to showcase the best research in data…
A new paper developed by researchers from the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) was accepted at the 52nd edition of VLDB (Very Large Data Bases), one of the most important international conferences in the world in database research. The paper, titled “Worst-Case Optimal BGPs on Temporal Graphs”, was developed by IMFD researchers Diego…
The director of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and academic at Universidad Católica (UC), Juan Reutter, spoke with Cooperativa Ciencia about the research behind the recognition awarded this month in London, and also discussed how artificial intelligence is changing the landscape for students. On July 9, the University of London, England, hosted…
The Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the Universidad de Chile, through its Data and Artificial Intelligence Initiative (IDIA), launched free, open-source software that allows users to train artificial intelligence models without needing to know how to program. The tool operates 100% locally on the user’s computer, with no mandatory cloud dependencies, positioning the…
The paper presents the technological architecture behind maqui.ai, the legal platform developed by the Innovation and Technology Transfer team of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The team will present the work during the conference, to be held in Italy, positioning it among the most relevant applications of 2026 in knowledge graph-based technologies….
Companies, universities, public services, and social organizations generate large amounts of information every day. However, many do not know whether their datahas the quality and organization needed to take advantage of artificial intelligence tools. A free workshop by the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), to be held in Santiago, Viña del Mar, and…
Academics Sebastián Ferrada and John Atkinson analyzed the impact of artificial intelligence on work and education, highlighting that critical thinking, professional judgment, and interpersonal skills will remain fundamental in the age of automation. In a recent episode of A Bordo de La Tercera, the academic from the Iniciativa de Datos e Inteligencia Artificial (IDIA) at…
At its annual ceremony, the UC School of Engineering honored Jocelyn Dunstan, Hans Löbel, and Juan Reutter. The recognitions included two promotions to the rank of associate professor, an award for engineering education, and a distinction for frontier research and impact. On August 14, as part of the traditional San Agustín Ceremony, the UC School…
The session, held at the Hub Metropolitano de Santiago, provided concrete tools for diagnosing and organizing organizations’ data before incorporating artificial intelligence into their processes. The workshop will be repeated in Viña del Mar, Concepción, and Santiago. More than 30 professionals took part in the first session of “Know Your Data: An Essential Step for…
The meeting was chaired by Aidan Hogan, faculty member of the Department of Computer Science (DCC) at Universidad de Chile and Deputy Director of the IMFD, and brought together researchers from both institutions to explore new avenues for collaboration, student exchange, and joint doctoral supervision. From July 27 to 31, the Department of Computer Science…
The Science and Technology Editathon 2026, organized by the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) together with Wikimedia Chile and with the collaboration of the Department of Computer Science of Universidad de Chile, brought together 14 institutions. Ten completed all stages of the process and already have articles published in the free encyclopedia. In…
The research, published in EPJ Data Science, evaluated the silicon sampling technique, which replaces real survey respondents with AI-simulated responses. In Chile, the models showed lower accuracy for women, older adults, religious people, those with lower educational levels, and lower-income groups. Large language models (LLMs), such as those behind ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude, began a…