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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…

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…