The award honors the papers with the greatest impact presented during the last decade at the International Conference on Database Theory, whether in terms of research, methodology, conceptual contributions or practical applications. The paper selected this year is entitled "Regular Queries on Graph Databases" and, in addition to Juan Reutter, academic of the Department...
The 2024 edition of Highlights will be held from September 16-20 at the University of Bordeaux (France). Pablo Barceló's talk will cover three case studies that highlight the key role of logic in improving the understanding of modern machine learning architectures. The Laboratoire Bordelais de...
The hackathon was held at Google's offices in Chile with the presence of the sponsors: Le Wagon, Kaggle and Google Cloud, in order to bring learning and application of cloud technologies and data science to a new level in our region. The first place winners of the hackathon were: Luis...
August, 2024 - How to put the most advanced data science techniques at the service of people: this is the objective of the IMFD Innovation area, which in collaboration with the Superintendence of Social Security (SUSESO), is working on the project "Natural Language Processing for the Optimization of Claims Entry". The SUSESO...
Diciembre, 2024.- Con el foco en el futuro de la computación y la necesidad de potenciar la representatividad e inclusión de mujeres y diversidad en el área, se realizó la XII versión de Chile Women in Computing 2024, el encuentro más importante de mujeres en el área de la computación en Chile, en el auditorio…
Pablo Barceló, Marcelo Arenas and Domingo Mery, academics DCC-IMC UC; together with Aidan Hogan, Gonzalo Navarro, Claudio Gutiérrez and Ricardo Baeza-Yates, academics DCC UCH, and Sebastián Valenzuela, academic of the Faculty of Communications UC and researcher of NUDOS, were recognized in the latest edition of the ranking "World's Top 2% Scientists", which also highlights...
October 2024 - We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for ChileWiC 2024, the XII Meeting of Women in Computing. This event is a unique opportunity to share, learn and connect with women and young people in the world of computing and informatics. Throughout the meeting, you will be able to participate in talks given by women from...
As a way to enhance this area, USS incorporated Leopoldo Bertossi, senior researcher at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, who arrived in July 2024 after his experience as Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Carleton University. Bertossi, who holds a PhD in Mathematics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,...
The Communal Digitalization Index (IDC), developed by the Millennium Nucleus on Digital Inequalities and Opportunities (NUDOS), with the participation of IMFD researchers Sebastián Valenzuela, an academic at the UC School of Communications, and Sergio Toro, director of the School of Government at the Universidad Mayor, measured household connectivity, its use and the...
The 2024 edition of Highlights will be held from September 16-20 at the University of Bordeaux (France). Pablo Barceló's talk will cover three case studies that highlight the key role of logic in improving the understanding of modern machine learning architectures. The Laboratoire Bordelais de...
The hackathon was held at the Google offices in Chile with the presence of the sponsors: Le Wagon, Kaggle and Google Cloud, in order to bring the learning and application of cloud technologies and data science to a new level in our region. The first place winners of the hackathon were: Luis...
August, 2024 - How to put the most advanced data science techniques at the service of people: this is the objective of the IMFD Innovation area, which in collaboration with the Superintendence of Social Security (SUSESO), is working on the project "Natural Language Processing for the Optimization of Claims Entry". The SUSESO...
How gendered stereotypes and body image concerns manifest themselves in online diet and fitness forums: this is what the research "Feelings about Bodies: Emotions on Diet and Fitness Forums Reveal Gendered Stereotypes and Body Image Concerns", in which PhD student from the Department of Biomedical Sciences participated, is about...
Generate concrete proposals of solutions for the design, improvement and evaluation of public policies, in order to provide evidence to decision makers and contribute to the national public discussion: this is the main objective of the Public Policy Competition held annually by the UC Center for Public Policy, which is organized by the...
Highlighting his scientific trajectory, DCC U. Chile academic and IMFD senior researcher Ricardo Baeza-Yates was appointed as a new member of the Academia Europaea (in Latin) on October 10 during the Building Bridges 2023 Annual Conference in Munich. "It is an academy at the European level for outstanding researchers, where I have been considered among...