May, 2023.- With the goal of joining efforts to collaborate in the area of research and development, the Dirección Meteorológica de Chile and the Innovation Department of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) signed a collaboration agreement that will link data science knowledge with the invaluable climatological and atmospheric information held by…
**April, 2023.-** How can the knowledge generated in universities and research centers be made available for lawmaking in the country? This is the question behind the [Vincula Meeting Platform](https://app.vincula.cl/), a technological product developed by the IMFD Innovation team, as part of the collaboration between the **Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)** and the…
January, 2023.- With the participation of more than 100 students from different countries, the first first MIT-Chile Human Centered AI & Visualization Research Workshop was held at the San Joaquín campus of Universidad Católica de Chile. The event featured presentations and talks on topics ranging from bias in natural language, machine learning, brain-computer interactions, and…
An important area within artificial intelligence is that of recommender systems: given an immense number of options, how can we suggest items that are actually of interest to people, in a personalized way and taking into account users’ history? In the specific field of job selection, the importance of this topic goes hand in hand…
March, 2023.- “Querying Graph Databases with XPath” is the title of the work by Domagoj Vrgoč, faculty member at the Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional (IMC) and IMFD researcher; one of the papers honored with the “Test of Time” award during the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (ICDT), the most important event in…
March 2023.- They are Matías Nova (Liceo Bicentenario San Nicolás), Diego Rebollo (Colegio Almondale Lomas), Leandro Parada (San Fernando College), and Matías Oteiza (The Greenland School): the four selected from the national competition who will represent Chile at the International Olympiad in Informatics 2023, which will take place in Hungary from August 28 to September…
The International Conference on Extending Database Technology (ICDT) is the most important conference in the field of databases, where researchers, developers, industry professionals, and users gather to learn about new ideas, techniques, and tools, and to exchange experiences. In the 26th edition of ICDT, held from March 28 to 31, 2023, in hybrid format in…
December, 2022.- With productive working sessions, in which participants split up by topics of interest and specialization, the Workshop of PE2 and PE3 of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), held at the main campus of the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, in Valparaíso, came to a close. Around 40 researchers and…
January, 2023.- Six research projects by researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) were awarded funding through the Fondecyt funds for 2023. This funding is provided by the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, ANID, to promote scientific-technological research in various areas of knowledge, through the funding of excellence research projects…
January 2023.- As part of the “Corfo Conecta” program, run by the Production Development Corporation (Corfo), this entity visited the offices of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) at the Centro de Innovación UC, seeking to introduce various companies to the IMFD Innovation and Technology Transfer area. The program, an initiative of…
December 2022.- Naim Bro, Assistant Professor at the School of Government of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, has recently joined the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) as a Young Researcher. The academic specializes in the study of dynamics associated with political elites and social stratification, from the perspective of computational social sciences, highlighting his…
January 2023.- A new recognition for his research work was received by Gonzalo Navarro, academic at the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), who was distinguished as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the leading…
January 2023.- With an invitation to view our reality from the perspective of data, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) held the “Introduction to Data Science Without a Computer Workshop” with teachers from different schools in the central zone of the country. “The goal of this activity is to teach that data…
December 2022.- The IMFD Research Seminars aim to promote knowledge of the different work topics among the different teams and researchers of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Since late 2021, they have been held monthly in hybrid format on the first Wednesday of each month, covering different topics ranging from natural…
December, 2022.- Consolidating the relevance of role models and collaboration within the community of women working in computing, computer science and other STEM fields, the tenth Chile Women in Computing (ChileWiC) gathering was held with a large turnout and great enthusiasm from participants, at the San Joaquín campus of Pontificia Universidad Católica. “We are very…