May, 2024.- A proposal that combines the use of large language models with data graphs for clinical data: this is the innovation proposed in the article Augmented non-hallucinating large language models as medical information curators published in NPJ Digital Medicine, by researchers Stephen Gilbert and Jakob Nikolas Kather, from the Else Kröner Fresenius Center for…
April, 2024.- The data gap between men and women is the main topic of Invisible Women, the book by Caroline Criado Pérez that will be discussed in the second IMFD Book Club – ODEGI, which will be held online and will feature three sessions starting on Thursday, May 16. At each session, three chapters of…
April, 2024.- With more than 30 attendees, the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) launched the new Espacio IMFD, a series of activities combining research seminars, talks, panel discussions, and more. This series aims to promote the interdisciplinary research that characterizes IMFD and also to generate activities that support and encourage IMFD students…
April, 2024.- Transactions on Graph Data and Knowledge (TGDK) is a new journal that publishes peer-reviewed research on the use of graphs to represent data and knowledge, as well as the techniques, theories, applications and results that emerge in this environment. Created by Aidan Hogan, Universidad de Chile; Ian Horrocks, University of Oxford, U.K.; Lalana…
April, 2023.- China’s key investments in Chile: this is what the new interactive map allows you to checkRegional Repository of Chinese Investments in Latin America, a digital tool that compiles, in detail and with geographic references, the Asian country’s investments in Chile, Peru, and Argentina. The platform currently gathers information and location data on China’s…
April, 2023.- “One of the challenges that I find very urgent is to gain a deep understanding of what are today the real data needs of companies, institutions, organizations, and startups in Chile. This, in order to then connect those requirements with the capabilities that research centers such as the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research…
April, 2024.- On May 4th, Universidad de Chile and Pontificia Universidad Católica will host the meeting “Safeguarding Press Freedom Amid Journalistic Insecurity: Perspectives from Academia”, one of the activities organized by UNESCO to commemorate World Press Freedom Day in 2024, the year in which Chile was chosen as host country. The event, for which registration…
April, 2024.- A census by right, a logic of trained enumerators, and a digital collection of information are the main characteristics of the 2024 Census that began a month ago. “What is at stake here is knowing how much reach the State has in person and how much is ultimately left to digital deployment,” says…
March 2023.- The Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) is making the Alberto Mendelzon room, located in the Department of Computer Science at Universidad de Chile, available to its researchers, students, and teams as an IMFD space. “Collaborative and interdisciplinary work, bringing together the leading national researchers who are experts in data, is…
March, 2024.- With more than 150 participants across eight municipalities, the Misinformation Workshops for Older Adults organized by the Millennium Nucleus for the Study of Digital Inequalities and Opportunities, Nudos, concluded with the support of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). Renca, San Antonio, Olivar, Requínoa, Santa Juana, and Cerros de Talcahuano…
**March, 2024.-** With the goal of improving the way computer programs are understood and analyzed, the work of IMFD researchers and DCC U. Chile academics, Matías Toro and Éric Tanter, is one of the projects selected under the ANID-DFG fund of the National Agency for Research and Development of Chile, and the German Research Foundation,…
January, 2024.- Generating concrete proposals for solutions to design, improve, and evaluate public policies, in order to provide evidence to decision-makers and contribute to national public discussion: this is the main objective of the Public Policy Competition held annually by the UC Center for Public Policy, which this year will fund the project “Development of…
January, 2024.- Within the framework of a collaboration project between the United Nations Development Programme in Chile (UNDP) and the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), the results of the third installment of the Constituent Listening Surveys were released this week, a study that began in September of last year to analyze public…
January 2024.- Over three days and traveling from the mountains to the sea: that is how the 5th Workshop of the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) took place, held from January 10 to 12, first on the Peñalolén campus of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, in Santiago, and then in the Coraceros Room of…
January, 2024.- The National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) announced the results of the Fondecyt Regular 2024 competition, the program that stands as the most central public policy in the science and innovation system, for the development of basic science in the country. This year, five projects carried out by researchers from the Millennium…