In a world where data generation is constant and massive, the ability to react to critical events within milliseconds has become a fundamental pillar for development. Many areas in which millions of data points are generated constantly and in very little time -a data stream- require tools that allow them to identify relevant events in…
IMFD researchers and academics from the Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile, Benjamin Bustos and Gonzalo Navarro, each were awarded a Fondecyt Regular project in the 2026 call. These works address time- and space-efficient techniques to extend worst-case optimal algorithms to complex graph and relational databases, and a multi-modal similarity…
With the participation of researchers and students of all levels, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) held its VIII Workshop at the Centro de Eventos Botánico in Peñalolén, Santiago. The event featured presentations on the progress and projects carried out by the center’s research lines, with an emphasis on the results and…
More than two hundred attendees arrived at the Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas de la Universidad de Chile to take part in ChileWiC 2025, a space designed to bring together women students, academics, and professionals from the fields of Computing and STEM. With the goal of sharing experiences, strengthening support networks, and making the…
The interdisciplinary project was recently presented at the 5th Workshop on Archaeology and Isotopes in Southern South America How can useful information, such as relationships and connections, be organized and extracted from hundreds of archaeological datings? This is the problem addressed by ArKG: the interdisciplinary project that brings together researchers from the School of Anthropology,…
The latest edition of the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), the world’s most important conference on the Semantic Web, featured notable participation from researchers of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Sebastián Ferrada, faculty member at the Data and Artificial Intelligence Initiative (IDIA), was part of the organizing committee and presented two…
As part of the Jornadas Chilenas de Computación 2025, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) held a new edition of the Data Foundations School, a training space aimed at sharing tools and applied knowledge in data science, which this year focused on data privacy and RAGs. The session included two main blocks….
Putting data science and artificial intelligence tools at the service of the country and historical memory: this is the goal of Nuestra MemorIA, the initiative born under the wing of the IMFD, led by Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero, IMC and DCC UC academic and IMFD and AC3E researcher, who was selected by ANID to receive funding…
The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) had a remarkable participation at the 2025 edition of the prestigious international conference ACM SIGMOD/PODS, one of the world’s leading forums for database research. “The participation of IMFD researchers strengthens the institute’s positioning in the development of theoretical foundations, computational tools, and applications in data management…
In a joint effort to strengthen the role of scientific knowledge in the formulation of public policy, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) and the Universidad del Bío-Bío (UBB) signed a collaboration agreement formalizing the incorporation of the latter into the Vincula project, a digital platform that seeks to connect academics and researchers with…
The Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES) and the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) took the first step toward a new collaborative effort to develop joint research. At this meeting, held at the Facultad de Economía y Negocios of the Universidad de Chile, the main databases developed by both institutions…
Every year, the International Communication Association, ICA, holds the academic conference in which its members participate to share the latest advances in the field of communication. This year, the annual conference is being held in Denver, Colorado, and last Saturday, June 14, after three days of presentations, talks, and academic exchange, a ceremony was held…
The project “Intelligent Assistant for the Analysis of Formal Sources of Law,” through which the IMFD Innovation team proposes a tool for managing the legal sources used in Chile, was awarded the StartUp Ciencia 2025 fund, granted by ANID. “Thanks to the completion of various projects in this field, as well as our interaction with…
September, 2024.- Creating environments, protocols, and tools that provide reliability to interaction in digital environments: this is one of the greatest 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 20 research centers around…