“We need to train journalists capable of understanding an increasingly complex information landscape”: In March of this year, UC academic and IMFD researcher Magdalena Saldaña took over as director of the UC Department of Journalism. Her arrival marks a new chapter for the school at a particularly challenging time for the profession: growing disinformation, audiences…
On March 17, Hugo Rojas, associate researcher at Universidad Alberto Hurtado, member of the Nuestra MemorIA project, as well as faculty member of the School of Law and Liberal Arts of the Universidad Católica del Uruguay and IMFD researcher, delivered a talk titled “Human Rights Archives and Artificial Intelligence: Contributions of Nuestra MemorIA to Transitional…
Next year will mark the 42nd edition of the Logic in Computer Science (LICS) forum, organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). This is the world’s most important symposium on logic and computer science, which will be held in Montreal (Canada) and will have as…
In an increasingly fragmented political landscape, understanding how our representatives actually vote has become a challenge for traditional political science tools. Researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), together with specialists from Universidad Católica, Universidad Mayor, and Universidad Católica de Temuco, have developed B-Call (Bidimensional Analysis of Roll Call), an innovative…
Professor Aidan Hogan, faculty member at DCC U. Chile and Deputy Director of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), received new recognition for his outstanding academic career after being promoted to the rank of Full Professor at Universidad de Chile, the highest rank within the academic career path. According to university regulations,…
Column by Carla Alberti and Diego Diaz in La Tercera, December 15, 2025 José Antonio Kast’s sweeping victory not only implies a change of power, but also confirms the decline of the dictatorship as the organizing axis of Chilean politics. This presidential election is the second in which the winning party is different from the…
In 2025, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) launched “Hablemos de Datos, los fundamentos de la inteligencia artificial” (“Let us Talk About Data, the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence”), a podcast and radio program aimed at bringing citizens closer to the core topics of data science and artificial intelligence (AI) across different areas…
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s leading scientific and educational computing society, announced today the selection of 61 new Distinguished Members for 2025. Among the professionals recognized is Pablo Barceló, a faculty member at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), honored for…
Column by Naim Bro, Professor, School of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Researcher / Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). I live in Santiago, but I vote in Romeral, a small town in the Maule region known for its cherries. Every time I go back, the contrast is still striking: the conversations I hear…
Knowing how many we are, how we are doing in health, in education, how we vote, what our origins are: There is a general consensus that this data should be accessible to those seeking to create public policy, innovate, research, study, and much more. But, how do we safeguard the privacy of individual data in…
How artists and designers develop systematic approaches to visual language: this is the question that guides the work behind “45 Symbols: Clay to Code”, the book in which Ricardo Vega takes part, professor at the UC School of Design, collaborator at DiLab (UC School of Engineering), and PhD student at IMFD. Directed by designer and…
One of the missions of the unit he will lead is to promote the informed and responsible use of AI in research, driving interdisciplinary initiatives on its development, impacts, and applications to address the most pressing social challenges. Pablo Barceló, who until a few months ago was director of the Institute of Mathematical and Computational…
The Universidad de Concepción has opened the 2026 application period for the Master’s in Data Science for Innovation (MACI), a pioneering program in Chile that combines training in data science, innovation, and entrepreneurship to transform the reality of public and private organizations. The challenge of leading this initiative falls to José Fuentes Sepúlveda, researcher at…
With surprise and great joy, Professor Ricardo Baeza-Yates, DCC academic and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), received recognition as Doctor Honoris Causa awarded by the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) at the beginning of the year, formally conferred at a ceremony on October…
One of the most important challenges for the generation of computer scientists working with artificial intelligence models is deciphering the well-known “black box”: computational systems whose internal workings are not visible, and therefore, not auditable. To address this problem, Marcelo Arenas, academic at IMC and DCC UC and researcher at IMFD presented a proposal in…