Undergraduate and master’s students, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, researchers, and government and academic authorities. All of them –more than 60 people in total-, were part of the audience that gathered on Wednesday, July 31, at the San Joaquín Campus of Universidad Católica, during the visit by Iniciativa Científica Milenio -an entity under the Ministry of…
The major analyses of the problems, phenomena, and changes that society is experiencing today are being generated through data-based research. That is why the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) has been running the Data Workshop for Journalists and Communicators for the past three years, a free initiative that seeks to bring applied…
A national artificial intelligence development strategy. That is the goal being pursued by a group of more than 70 scientists and academics from different Chilean universities, who were convened by the Future Challenges Commission of the Senate, chaired by Senator Guido Girardi. Among them is Álvaro Soto, Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science…
In Chile, more than 50% of people show an insufficient level in basic competencies, such as text comprehension, the ability to understand information contained in charts, graphs, or maps, or the ability to perform arithmetic operations, such as estimating time based on schedules. Most concerning is that this picture has not changed much between 1998…
The National Statistics Institute (INE), together with the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), signed a cooperation agreement that will allow them to pool resources, capabilities, and efforts to develop matters of joint interest in scientific and technological research related to databases, semantic web, algorithms, data mining, artificial intelligence, big data, and network…
“Vean a esas personas que están ahí. ¿Qué tienen en común? Lo que las une es que esas personas no existen, no son reales. Un computador, pixel a pixel, las dibujó. Parte de lo que les quiero contar hoy es cómo hace un computador, para crear esto. Les voy a enseñar que no es tan…
“At our foundation, we are convinced that the way we can contribute to the discussion on the country’s priorities and to the creation of more and better public policies is through evidence. Even more so if it comes from analysis of the highest quality, based on data, and whose results have the potential to be…
“Exposing the president: the political angle of a natural disaster in Chile” is the name of the paper by Magdalena Saldaña —a faculty member at the School of Communications of Universidad Católica and researcher at the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)— which was chosen as the winner at the International Symposium on…
Bárbara Poblete, researcher at our institute and academic at the Department of Computer Science (DCC) of Universidad de Chile, was one of the organizers of LA-WEB 2019: 10th Latin-American Web Congress, an event that was part of The Web Conference (WWW) in San Francisco, United States. The Web Conference is the most important conference worldwide…
“On the Turing Completeness of Modern Neural Network Architectures” is the title of the research that Jorge Pérez, academic of the Department of Computer Science (DCC) at U. de Chile and IMFD researcher, presented at the International Conference on Learning Representation (ICLR 2019), held in the city of New Orleans, United States. It is the…
There are certain conferences in the field of computing that have greater visibility and renown worldwide and that, for this reason, attract a larger number of papers from researchers across different regions. In the area of database theory, one of the most relevant is the so-called International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), held annually in…
The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) was invited to take part in a first debate on the possibility of lowering the age of citizenship to 16 and the age for voting in municipal elections to 14, represented by its researcher Cristián Pérez-Muñoz, an academic at the Institute of Political Science of the…
Data (lots of data), pizza, and beer were the essential ingredients of the first Data, Beer & Pizza, a gathering that seeks —in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere— to spread awareness about the reach of data science across its most diverse fields of application. The event, attended by more than 100 people, was organized by the…
It can all start with a simple “Like” on a Facebook comment, so that this first approval, given freely and autonomously by a user to a message that matches their interests, becomes part of a chain of events that ends with that person marking a line on one of the millions of ballots that will…
This Friday, April 12, directors and researchers from the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) will make their first official visit of the year to Universidad de Concepción (UdeC), an institution associated with our center. Serving as researchers at IMFD are the UdeC Vice-Rector for Research and Development, Andrea Rodríguez; the director of…