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**December 2023.-** With competitors coming from as far as Copiapó and Osorno, the [National Final of the 12th Chilean Informatics Olympiad (OCI)](https://www.olimpiada-informatica.cl/noticias/oci/nacional/resultados/2023/12/16/resultados-final-nacional-2023.html) was held on December 15 and 16, 2023, taking place at the [Computer Science Department of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile](https://dcc.ing.puc.cl/). The 32 participants had four hours to solve problems by writing code…

December, 2023.- Scientific research, when accompanied by a significant component of self-reflection, and when its leaders make room for the vision of younger researchers, has a greater chance not only of renewing its outlook, but also of being more in tune with what society requires. This is the view of Marcelo Arenas, Full Professor and…

**December 2022.-** There are three priority areas that **Camila Díaz Foxon, political scientist from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,** will first tackle **after taking on the position of executive director of the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD).** The first will be to **support and drive the research lines** that, after five years…

December, 2023.- With more than 170 enthusiastic participants, who filled the main auditorium of the Salas de Innovación Docente Building at Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), the XI Women in Computing Meeting ChileWiC2023 was held, supported by the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The meeting featured the presence of the Undersecretary of…

December, 2023.- With more than 70 people, in the Salón Domeyko of the Casa Central of the Universidad de Chile and moderated by Camila Diaz Foxon, executive director of IMFD, the first Seminar on Data, Artificial Intelligence and Ethics: How to Strengthen the Foundations of Our Digital Society was held under the umbrella of the…

December, 2023.- One of the many research lines developed at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) is multimodal graphs (one of the developments in this area is Millenium DB). Multimodal graphs are ways of structuring data, representing relationships between different types of nodes and connections, which allows modeling and representing information of different…

December, 2023.- In a world where an enormous amount of data is produced every second: how can we extract information that is useful to us? This is the question that researchers at the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) have been working to answer for over a decade. “Currently, Millennium DB is a data…

A joint project between UNDP Chile and IMFD has been studying public opinion on the new constitutional drafting process. In the latest wave of surveys from this initiative, known as Escuchas Constitucionales (Constitutional Listening), respondents were asked for the first time about information pollution: the vast majority (75%) of those surveyed believe that the information…

November 2023.- Hércules Dalianis, professor of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University, Sweden, visited Chile as part of the Fondecyt project “Creation of linguistic and computational resources for clinical language in Spanish” led by DCC and IMC UC academic Jocelyn Dunstan Escudero. “Privacy is key when working with data in the health field. Practically…

November, 2023.- Between January 8 and 13, 2024, the eighth edition of the Summer School in Mixed Methods (EVMM) will take place, addressing multiple methodological research tools for the development of Political Science and the Social Sciences, with outstanding national and international speakers. The coordination of the Summer School in Mixed Methods, in its new…

October, 2023.- “Around the world, women are not on equal footing when it comes to driving the creation of new technologies that will define their lives. This is not good for women, nor is it good for the world. Women must take their rightful place at the table, creating the technology of the future.” This…

October, 2023.- The “Most Notable Paper Award” from the 19th Dynamic Language Symposium recognizes the most influential research work, with 10 years of hindsight, and this year the featured paper is “Cast Insertion Strategies for Gradually-Typed Objects” (2013), by Esteban Allende, Johan Fabry and Éric Tanter, all of them, at the time, from the Departamento…

**October, 2023.-** “With the AI boom in recent years, **NeurIPS has become the place where much of the most relevant research and developments in machine learning worldwide are presented**,” says Pablo Barceló, director of the Institute for Mathematical and Computational Engineering (IMC UC) and associate researcher at the **Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)**…

October, 2023.- With very enthusiastic participation from the students who joined the activity, the International School on Computational Social Sciences in Uruguay was held, jointly organized by the Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data (IMFD), the Interdisciplinary Center for Data Science and Machine Learning (CICADA-CSIC/Udelar) and the Unit for Methods and Data Access (UMAD-FCS/Udelar). This…

October, 2023.- With the participation of more than 130 students at 10 sites across the country, the Regional Phase of the Chilean Informatics Olympiad was held. Those who took part at the sites in Arica, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Santiago, Rancagua, Talca, Chillán, Concepción, Temuco and Puerto Montt, in addition to the online site, competed for four…