November 2020.– Communications of the ACM is one of the most relevant scientific publications internationally in the field of computing. It gathers the advances and emerging topics in computer science, new trends in IT and applied research, discoveries and innovations, with an emphasis on cutting-edge science that paves the way toward new fields of exploration….
November 2020.– The development of a self-administered version of the Rapid Olfactory Kit (KOR) is the next step to be taken by the Centro de Aromas y Sabores de DICTUC and the Technology Transfer Unit of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), thanks to funding awarded through the Startup Ciencia initiative of…
“When the Arduino kit arrived, I felt excited. I was afraid to open it, I did not know if something was going to break. But when I finished the project I felt the satisfaction of having achieved something,” says Isidora Lemunao, who developed a piggy bank that opens to store coins using a remote sensor….
Felipe Bravo (36), researcher at IMFD and assistant professor at the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación at the U. de Chile, was one of the young researchers, at the national level, who were awarded a Fondecyt de Iniciación 2020. This fund seeks to encourage and strengthen the development of excellent scientific and technological research…
“The Web of Data” is the title of the book written by the DCC U. de Chile professor and Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) researcher, Instituto Milenio Fundamentos de los Datos, Aidan Hogan, published by Springer, which addresses the topic of the web of data in a broader way. “This book provides…
“We wanted mainly girls and teenage girls to take part, but we were surprised by the percentage of participation from young women, close to 80% of the total. Initially we thought it would be hard to reach the audience we were looking for…” says Jazmine Maldonado, president of Niñas Pro: an organization created and led…
A text classifier based on deep neural networks that helps to automatically categorize different types of medical articles on a large scale: ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands. This is the work of Andrés Carvallo, a PhD researcher at the Departamento de Ciencia de la Computación (DCC) de la U. Católica, funded by the…
October 2020.- The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) and the Supreme Court established a collaboration agreement that seeks, among other objectives, to develop a system for categorizing and searching the information contained in judicial rulings. At the agreement signing ceremony, Guillermo Silva Gundelach, President of the Supreme Court, noted that society and…
What are the theoretical reasons that explain why an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm makes certain decisions and not others? This is not a trivial matter, since, in practice, these reasons are what lead that algorithm to favor one candidate over another in a bank loan approval process, for example. They can also tip the balance…
More than 45,000 tests to detect COVID-19 through smell have been processed, from June to date, by the web platform developed by the Technology Transfer Unit of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The Rapid Olfactory Kit (KOR), created by the Centro de Aromas y Sabores de DICTUC, is easy to apply…
Santiago, September 2020.– Starting in 2007, Uruguay launched a plan for every student to have a personal computer for their own use. Since then, the Plan Ceibal has achieved WiFi network coverage in 100% of educational centers, has delivered more than 2 million notebooks to schoolchildren, devices for teachers, laptops in libraries, videoconference rooms, and…
September 2, 2020.– Coming into contact from the very first year with real, concrete challenges in data science is one of the key advantages that students of the new Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science Engineering will have. This program was recently made official by Universidad Católica, and the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data…
“Data is a renewable resource, just as much as the sun and the wind.” This is how the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, described the value of digital information at the World Economic Forum in January 2020, an occasion on which she highlighted the wealth and untapped opportunities that exist within…
Since July 2020, associate researcher Jorge Pérez, professor at the Department of Computer Science (DCC) of Universidad de Chile, took office as deputy director of that unit, led by academic Cecilia Bastarrica. Until his appointment, the academic served as director of the DCC’s Communications area. Pérez holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universidad Católica,…
The literature that exists in Chile was more or less conclusive: it indicated that, in general, evangelicals were not interested in politics. “Historically, they did not get involved because it was a ‘forbidden’ topic. But what one begins to see in recent years, in the country, is that not only are there more evangelical politicians…