Author: Paula Silva

Looking back on its history and the milestones that have defined its contribution to the country, the Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile commemorated half a century since the creation of the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación (DCC), a pioneering unit in training, research, and technological development that has…

Inspired by Karen Sparck Jones, the distinguished British programmer and computer scientist, the 13th Women in Computing Chile Meeting WiC 2025 will take place on Friday, November 28, 2025, at the Enrique d’Etigny auditorium of the Universidad de Chile. “Even though women have always been a fundamental part of computing since its origins and throughout…

The director of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), Juan Reutter, together with the executive director of the IMFD, Camila Díaz, took part in the first day of the Exchange of Experiences in Digital Health Transformation program, organized by the Ministry of Health and the World Bank, to learn about Chile’s experience…

As every year, the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List was published, listing the most influential scientists worldwide, an international ranking prepared by a group of researchers from Stanford University. The measurement is built from all author profiles in the Scopus database, which records scientific publications and citations from nearly the entire world. The index considers…

More than 600 people gathered at the MAC, Quinta Normal venue, to take part in this second edition of the event. As part of the National Day of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, the event invited girls, boys, young people and adults to explore how research is part of everyday life. The Millennium Institute for…

In Singapore, IMFD researcher Magdalena Saldaña, an academic at the School of Communications at Universidad Católica and currently on sabbatical leave, was invited by professor Shangyuan Wu from the National University of Singapore (NUS). At this university she gave the lectures “Latin American Journalism and Public Interest,” for professor Wu’s graduate course “Digital Journalism, Law,…

As part of the commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) honored Gonzalo Navarro, a faculty member at the Department of Computer Science of the Universidad de Chile and Researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Earlier this month, the Association for Computing Machinery had already recognized…

As part of the commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the organization highlighted Marcelo Arenas, an academic at the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Mathematical and Computational Engineering UC, and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The Association for Computing Machinery…

September 18, 2025 marks the centenary of the 1925 Constitution. It is often remembered for its legal architecture -the separation between Church and State, the strengthening of presidentialism-, but the real change occurred at another level: who entered politics. It was not just a new legal framework; it was a hinge that opened the door…

Spreading science-based content created at the institute to localities throughout the country: that is one of the goals of the new podcast and radio program Hablemos de Datos, los fundamentos de la inteligencia artificial, which the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) has just launched, with funding from the Ciencia Pública program of…

Data privacy and knowledge graphs: the two new IMFD researchers, both from the Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile, join to strengthen the main areas of work within the research lines of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) Sebastián Ferrada is a faculty member of the Iniciativa…

The paper “The Missing Link: Identifying Digital Intermediaries in E-Government” was awarded the Edgardo Catterberg Award for the best paper presented at the WAPOR Latinoamérica conference, one of the most important academic gatherings on public opinion studies in the region. The research team includes IMFD researchers Sergio Toro, director of the School of Government at…

Building, understanding and controlling artificial intelligence models without needing programming knowledge: this is the goal of DashAI, the interactive, open-source tool that was selected in the FONDEF IDeA I+D 2025 competition. “These funds aim to boost the development of technologies that generate impacts on the country at a productive, economic, and social level,” explains Felipe…

Disruption and consolidation in communication research: that is the theme of the 75th annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), held in Denver, United States, which features the active participation of scholars from the Facultad de Comunicaciones de la Universidad Católica and IMFD researchers, Magdalena Saldaña and Sebastián Valenzuela. The researchers will present their…