The challenges facing the labor market due to artificial intelligence was the central theme of the Congreso Futuro Forum: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work, held as part of this event coordinated by the Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo, and which featured the participation of Juan Reutter, director of the Millennium Institute for…
The Summer School on Mixed Methods at the Instituto de Ciencia Política de la Universidad Católica de Chile brought together more than 40 participants from different places in the region, who explored diverse forms of research, such as concepts and measurement, causal inference and experiments, Process tracing, archives and big data, among others, organized into…
January, 2024.- From January 10 to 12, the Department of Computer Science of the Universidad de Chile (DCC U. Chile) hosted the workshop “Digital Technologies and Indigenous Languages” (https://ws.dcc.uchile.cl/), organized by the Subdirección de Pueblos Indígenas of the FCFM, with Claudio Gutiérrez, faculty member at DCC U. Chile and IMFD researcher, serving as the local…
December 2023.- In December, an intensive training session for girls only was held for those preparing to compete in the Chilean Informatics Olympiad, the country’s most important competitive programming event. This intensive training, in which 21 girls enrolled, is part of the activities carried out by the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD)…
December 2023.- A machine learning model that makes it possible to predict krill volume in the Antarctic zone and thus prevent its targeted exploitation: this is the project developed by an interdisciplinary team of students made up of Cristian Cofré, Master’s in Computer Science; Dantes Arduam, from the Bachelor’s Degree in Science with a major…
**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 for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD).** The first will be to **support and drive the research lines** that, after five…
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 for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD). The meeting featured the presence of the Undersecretary…
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 for 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…
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 for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) have been working to answer for over a decade. “Currently, Millennium DB is a…
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…