Hasta el 15 de abril se encuentran abiertas las postulaciones al primer curso gratuito de Procesamiento de Lenguaje Natural clínico para estudiantes y profesionales de la salud e ingeniería de Chile en: https://plnclinico.imfd.cl/ “Uno de los desafíos más importantes al querer utilizar diferentes herramientas de inteligencia artificial en el ámbito de salud, es que la…
La ciudad de Santiago de Chile fue sede por primera vez de la conferencia KHIPU 2025, el encuentro de inteligencia artificial más importante de Latinoamérica, que se llevó a cabo del 10 al 14 de marzo de 2025. Este evento reunió a más de 500 asistentes de la academia, la industria y otros líderes del…
Matías Toro (DCC U. Chile), Sebastián Ferrada (Datos & Inteligencia Artificial FCFM Universidad de Chile) y Naim Bro (Escuela de Gobierno UAI) son los tres investigadores IMFD que están recibiendo estos fondos entregados por la ANID. Los Fondecyt de Iniciación buscan fortalecer el desarrollo de la investigación científica y tecnológica de excelencia a través de…
Between January 13 and 17, 2025, the Democracy and Ecology High School was held, a citizenship training initiative promoted jointly by the Millennium Institute for Research on Violence and Democracy (VioDemos) and the Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity. The intense program included 5 days in which 32 students from...
From January 21-29, the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science 2025 (SICSS) was held for the second time in Chile, with the objective of expanding knowledge in computational social science, promoting interdisciplinary participation of those who belong to these areas. During seven days, keynotes, workshops and workshops were held in...
A recent study entitled "Unsupervised Framing Analysis for Social Media Discourse in Polarizing Events", by IMFD researchers Hernán Sarmiento (IMFD Innovation), Jorge Ortiz (DCC UCH), Felipe Bravo-Márquez (DCC UCH) and Sebastián Valenzuela (PUC), together with Marcelo Santos (UDP) and Ricardo Córdova, was published in the prestigious journal ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB), of...
Using the knowledge and advances created in academia to solve problems that affect people: this is one of the objectives of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data, whose Innovation area, in alliance with Cero.ai, was recently awarded the project "Prioritization of patients on waiting lists using Artificial Intelligence"...
January 2025 - One of the most interesting challenges in the area of natural language processing (NLP) is free text recognition. This is the challenge faced by the IMFD's Innovation and Technology Transfer Department in its collaborative work with the Superintendence of Social Security (SUSESO), whose main focus was the development of a...
January, 2025 - The Association for Computing Machinery, the most prestigious group in the area of computing and informatics worldwide, highlighted Marcelo Arenas, academic of the Department of Computer Science UC and the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering UC and IMFD researcher as a Fellow of the ACM. This award recognizes the top...
Magdalena Saldaña, academic of the Faculty of Communications PUC and IMFD researcher, has been distinguished with a prestigious award granted by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna in Austria: the "Paul Lazarsfeld Professorship". This award is given to outstanding academics with an innovative profile in the fields of communication and...
August, 2024 - For the first time in its history, the most prestigious international conference in data science, ACM SIGMOD/PODS, was held in Latin America, with Chile as the host country. One of the sections of this important conference is the presentation of cutting-edge prototypes of new data management systems. The aim is to...
Aunque sus comienzos como estudiante fueron en la carrera de Ingeniería Civil Eléctrica en la Universidad de Chile, pues cuando entró al Plan Común no había visto un solo computador, fue en el avance de estos primeros años que se interesó por la computación, estudiando en paralelo el Bachiller y el Magister en Ciencias de…
IMFD and Cenia researcher, Felipe Bravo, is promoted to Associate Professor at the University of Chile. The academic of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chile holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and a Master's degree in Computer Science, mention in Computer Science, Civil Engineer...
October, 2024.- "There is a need to broaden women's access to technology and challenge the patriarchal history of science and technology, which has viewed these disciplines as inherently male." This is the vision that drove Thelma Estrin, an American computer scientist and pioneer in applying information technology to the fields of health and...
September, 2024 - Generating environments, protocols and tools that give reliability to the interaction in digital environments: this is one of the biggest challenges currently facing the world of computing and information technology. Digital trust is the main focus of the "Glion Summit of Centers", held in Switzerland, which brought together leaders from all over the...